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

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18226 views 59 likes

Blanketed Po Valley

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 14108 views 41 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24342 views 58 likes

EarthCARE over Europe

ESA’s cloud mission in the limelight

01/02/2024 3641 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 7609 views 33 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 13522 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 2949 views 59 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Little Pictures winner announced at COP28

11/12/2023 2984 views 40 likes

Brazilian tropical forest

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 2967 views 65 likes

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 52839 views 136 likes

Collaborating for a greener future

ESA and UNEP collaborate for a greener future

04/12/2023 2863 views 54 likes

TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space

Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission

04/12/2023 4284 views 62 likes

Components of the climate system

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 5506 views 56 likes

EarthCARE: measuring clouds and aerosols

How will EarthCARE shed light on clouds?

29/11/2023 3645 views 62 likes

Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 5128 views 105 likes

CryoSat

Enabling & Support

Life beyond the leak for ESA’s CryoSat

22/11/2023 8071 views 141 likes

Towards Earth Explorer 11

Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer candidates go forward

21/11/2023 10180 views 81 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in the cleanroom

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

20/11/2023 6906 views 97 likes

Two MetOp-SG satellites on show

MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off

15/11/2023 5669 views 77 likes

MANTIS under inspection

Two ESA Φ-lab-enabled satellites launched

13/11/2023 2609 views 49 likes

Nourishing commercial Earth observation

Nourishing commercial growth in Earth observation

10/11/2023 2917 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 14120 views 111 likes

EC–ESA initiative on space for climate action

ESA and EC to unite on climate action from space

06/11/2023 6600 views 48 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Relive the Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

02/11/2023 2108 views 31 likes

EarthCARE for a better understanding of Earth's radiation balance

Gearing up for EarthCARE

27/10/2023 7168 views 79 likes

Commericalisation trends

Six trends to watch in commercial Earth observation

26/10/2023 9804 views 58 likes

Antarctic ice shelf melt

Antarctic ice shelf demise

13/10/2023 22493 views 118 likes

Soybean

Measuring nutrition in crops from space

10/10/2023 9424 views 87 likes

Tropical forest around the Capim River, Brazil

Younger trees champion carbon capture

05/10/2023 11734 views 111 likes

Ozone hole extension 2023

Ozone hole goes large again

04/10/2023 68026 views 79 likes

Sentinel-5P detected methane plumes

Trio of Sentinel satellites map methane super-emitters

20/09/2023 40079 views 155 likes

Morocco earthquake fringes

Sentinel-1 reveals shifts from Morocco earthquake

14/09/2023 14312 views 106 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Showcase your climate data visualisation talent

13/09/2023 7146 views 55 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21952 views 85 likes

Land-surface temperature in Rome on 17 July 2023

Sensing city night heat from space

24/08/2023 7933 views 79 likes

The MTG Infrared Sounder prior to integration on MTG-S1

Putting the S in the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder

14/08/2023 5740 views 82 likes

Adelie penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctica vulnerable to extreme events

08/08/2023 7101 views 112 likes

Worldwide fires from ESA’s World Fire Atlas

Counting wildfires across the globe

03/08/2023 42612 views 105 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 17174 views 138 likes

Smoke plume from the Litli-Hrútur volcano

Litli-Hrútur eruption seen from space

26/07/2023 16872 views 74 likes

Rice fields, Mekong Delta

Satellites unveil the far-reaching impact of irrigation

25/07/2023 5214 views 88 likes

Faenza flood map

Satellites map aftermath of Emilia-Romagna floods

20/07/2023 13582 views 88 likes

Aeolus teams take part in the first ever assisted reentry simulations at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

Simulating Aeolus’s return: mission control feels the heat

18/07/2023 5111 views 89 likes

FutureEO

New strategy to keep pace with our changing world

18/07/2023 4259 views 83 likes

To the tune of Aeolus

The sound of Aeolus will blow you away

14/07/2023 5886 views 81 likes

Heatwave across Europe

Europe braces for sweltering July

13/07/2023 110156 views 213 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13723 views 192 likes

Lightning over Europe

European satellite strikes lightning

03/07/2023 19580 views 69 likes

Joining forces to address food security

Space to empower rural food producers

30/06/2023 2082 views 41 likes

The Copernicus Contributing Missions

New Space companies join Copernicus

19/06/2023 8801 views 72 likes

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