ESA - Observing the Earth - Archive

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Steve’s twin captured by an all-sky digital camera

Swarm helps discover Steve's long-lost twin

03/06/2024 20053 views 97 likes

Cloud and aerosol satellite launches

EarthCARE launched to study role of clouds and aerosols in …

29/05/2024 10036 views 72 likes

EarthCARE heads to launch facility

EarthCARE ready for launch

28/05/2024 2350 views 13 likes

EarthCARE on board a Falcon 9 launch vehicle

Watch EarthCARE launch live

28/05/2024 23695 views 34 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 6246 views 13 likes

Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5720 views 27 likes

EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance

EarthCARE mission kit

17/05/2024 4620 views 49 likes

Smoke from fires in Canada

Canada’s wildfire season begins

16/05/2024 2840 views 14 likes

ɸ-sat AI

AI in Earth observation: a force for good

09/05/2024 3769 views 15 likes

Mission control during EarthCARE launch preparations

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for EarthCARE despite disruption

06/05/2024 2696 views 27 likes

Checking EarthCARE under UV light

ESA’s cloud and aerosol satellite aerosol-free

03/05/2024 1279 views 8 likes

Barcelona captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

From space to soil

24/04/2024 3247 views 37 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

10 ways Earth is interconnected

22/04/2024 4974 views 17 likes

Earth Observation Excellence Award

Earth Observation Excellence Award 2024 winner

18/04/2024 1502 views 5 likes

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

18/04/2024 2481 views 17 likes

Advancing Earth science

ESA selects four new Earth Explorer mission ideas

17/04/2024 11475 views 53 likes

EarthCARE revealed

EarthCARE out of the box

16/04/2024 1871 views 18 likes

Our Ocean from Space opens in Barcelona

09/04/2024 1870 views 56 likes

All eyes on the Arctic Weather Satellite

04/04/2024 3486 views 23 likes

Accounting for vegetation in the climate puzzle

Vegetation gets a boost with data from space

27/03/2024 2643 views 25 likes

Solar flare captured by ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP

SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm

26/03/2024 22976 views 24 likes

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

25/03/2024 4530 views 29 likes

Fixing the Arctic Weather Satellite to the shaker

Arctic Weather Satellite tested for life in orbit

14/03/2024 3389 views 23 likes

Clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s radiation balance

Joining forces on the complexities of clouds and aerosols

11/03/2024 2089 views 21 likes

Global ocean acidification stripes

Satellites increasingly critical to monitor ocean health

22/02/2024 3543 views 29 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33053 views 75 likes

Scout missions

NanoMagSat and Tango Scout missions get go-ahead

21/02/2024 6718 views 27 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18130 views 59 likes

Blanketed Po Valley

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 13595 views 40 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24217 views 58 likes

EarthCARE over Europe

ESA’s cloud mission in the limelight

01/02/2024 3599 views 30 likes

Map reveals fishing activity not publicly tracked around Portugal and Morocco

Sentinel-1 and AI reveal 75% of fishing vessels not tracked

24/01/2024 7383 views 33 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 13404 views 85 likes

Destination Earth (DestinE), is an initiative of the European Union, that aims to develop a digital twin, or replica, of our planet.

ESA forges ahead with Destination Earth

14/12/2023 2875 views 59 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Little Pictures winner announced at COP28

11/12/2023 2844 views 40 likes

Brazilian tropical forest

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 2899 views 64 likes

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 50119 views 134 likes

Collaborating for a greener future

ESA and UNEP collaborate for a greener future

04/12/2023 2816 views 54 likes

TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space

Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission

04/12/2023 4223 views 62 likes

Components of the climate system

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 5290 views 56 likes

EarthCARE: measuring clouds and aerosols

How will EarthCARE shed light on clouds?

29/11/2023 3495 views 62 likes

Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 5008 views 104 likes

CryoSat

Enabling & Support

Life beyond the leak for ESA’s CryoSat

22/11/2023 7942 views 141 likes

Towards Earth Explorer 11

Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer candidates go forward

21/11/2023 9974 views 81 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in the cleanroom

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

20/11/2023 6785 views 97 likes

Two MetOp-SG satellites on show

MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off

15/11/2023 5597 views 77 likes

MANTIS under inspection

Two ESA Φ-lab-enabled satellites launched

13/11/2023 2534 views 49 likes

Nourishing commercial Earth observation

Nourishing commercial growth in Earth observation

10/11/2023 2752 views 32 likes

Icebergs in the Amundsen Sea, off the west coast of Antarctica

AI maps icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans

09/11/2023 13700 views 111 likes

EC–ESA initiative on space for climate action

ESA and EC to unite on climate action from space

06/11/2023 6528 views 48 likes

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