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First peak into Earth’s energy balance from EarthCARE

EarthCARE offers a sneak peek into Earth’s energy balance

05/07/2024 5015 views 40 likes

Φsat-2 ready for integration

New satellite to show how AI advances Earth observation

02/07/2024 9614 views 19 likes

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

A first: EarthCARE reveals inner secrets of clouds

27/06/2024 12398 views 80 likes

Living Planet Symposium 2025

Save the date: ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025

24/06/2024 13560 views 97 likes

Arctic diatoms

Will climate change turn the Arctic green?

18/06/2024 3889 views 10 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Preparing ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite for liftoff

17/06/2024 4020 views 23 likes

ESA X Schiphol 'Where on Earth?' travel quiz campaign banner image

Space for a travel quiz!

12/06/2024 18004 views 37 likes

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

A milestone in digital Earth modelling

10/06/2024 3133 views 18 likes

Sentinel-5 in all its glory

Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite

06/06/2024 2679 views 9 likes

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

Enabling & Support

EarthCARE on cloud nine after smooth start to mission

05/06/2024 2751 views 20 likes

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

Swarm helps discover Steve's long-lost twin

03/06/2024 20429 views 97 likes

Cloud and aerosol satellite launches

EarthCARE launched to study role of clouds and aerosols in …

29/05/2024 10564 views 72 likes

EarthCARE heads to launch facility

EarthCARE ready for launch

28/05/2024 2554 views 13 likes

EarthCARE on board a Falcon 9 launch vehicle

Watch EarthCARE launch live

28/05/2024 23987 views 34 likes

Vigil warns Earth

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

22/05/2024 6882 views 13 likes

Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5992 views 27 likes

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

EarthCARE mission kit

17/05/2024 4886 views 49 likes

Smoke from fires in Canada

Canada’s wildfire season begins

16/05/2024 3093 views 14 likes

ɸ-sat AI

AI in Earth observation: a force for good

09/05/2024 4076 views 15 likes

Mission control during EarthCARE launch preparations

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for EarthCARE despite disruption

06/05/2024 2928 views 27 likes

Checking EarthCARE under UV light

ESA’s cloud and aerosol satellite aerosol-free

03/05/2024 1420 views 8 likes

Barcelona captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

From space to soil

24/04/2024 3444 views 39 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

10 ways Earth is interconnected

22/04/2024 5971 views 19 likes

Earth Observation Excellence Award

Earth Observation Excellence Award 2024 winner

18/04/2024 1615 views 5 likes

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

18/04/2024 2819 views 17 likes

Advancing Earth science

ESA selects four new Earth Explorer mission ideas

17/04/2024 12923 views 53 likes

EarthCARE revealed

EarthCARE out of the box

16/04/2024 1976 views 18 likes

Our Ocean from Space opens in Barcelona

09/04/2024 2037 views 60 likes

All eyes on the Arctic Weather Satellite

04/04/2024 3608 views 23 likes

Accounting for vegetation in the climate puzzle

Vegetation gets a boost with data from space

27/03/2024 2854 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 23259 views 24 likes

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

25/03/2024 4841 views 32 likes

Fixing the Arctic Weather Satellite to the shaker

Arctic Weather Satellite tested for life in orbit

14/03/2024 3557 views 23 likes

Clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s radiation balance

Joining forces on the complexities of clouds and aerosols

11/03/2024 2300 views 21 likes

Global ocean acidification stripes

Satellites increasingly critical to monitor ocean health

22/02/2024 3876 views 29 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33823 views 76 likes

Scout missions

NanoMagSat and Tango Scout missions get go-ahead

21/02/2024 7152 views 28 likes

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

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18400 views 59 likes

Blanketed Po Valley

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 14921 views 41 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24513 views 58 likes

EarthCARE over Europe

ESA’s cloud mission in the limelight

01/02/2024 3699 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 7923 views 33 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 13663 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 3054 views 59 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Little Pictures winner announced at COP28

11/12/2023 3157 views 40 likes

Brazilian tropical forest

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 3056 views 65 likes

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 56141 views 142 likes

Collaborating for a greener future

ESA and UNEP collaborate for a greener future

04/12/2023 2937 views 54 likes

TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space

Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission

04/12/2023 4370 views 62 likes

Components of the climate system

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 5768 views 56 likes

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