ESA - Observing the Earth - Archive

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Scout missions

NanoMagSat and Tango Scout missions get go-ahead

21/02/2024 7258 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 18513 views 59 likes

Blanketed Po Valley

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 15250 views 42 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24585 views 58 likes

EarthCARE over Europe

ESA’s cloud mission in the limelight

01/02/2024 3720 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 8082 views 33 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 13709 views 86 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 3093 views 59 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Little Pictures winner announced at COP28

11/12/2023 3180 views 40 likes

Brazilian tropical forest

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 3093 views 65 likes

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 58325 views 142 likes

Collaborating for a greener future

ESA and UNEP collaborate for a greener future

04/12/2023 2970 views 54 likes

TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space

Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission

04/12/2023 4408 views 62 likes

Components of the climate system

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 5900 views 56 likes

EarthCARE: measuring clouds and aerosols

How will EarthCARE shed light on clouds?

29/11/2023 3869 views 62 likes

Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 5343 views 105 likes

CryoSat

Enabling & Support

Life beyond the leak for ESA’s CryoSat

22/11/2023 8329 views 141 likes

Towards Earth Explorer 11

Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer candidates go forward

21/11/2023 10520 views 81 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in the cleanroom

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

20/11/2023 7057 views 97 likes

Two MetOp-SG satellites on show

MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off

15/11/2023 5817 views 77 likes

MANTIS under inspection

Two ESA Φ-lab-enabled satellites launched

13/11/2023 2774 views 49 likes

Nourishing commercial Earth observation

Nourishing commercial growth in Earth observation

10/11/2023 3288 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 14948 views 113 likes

EC–ESA initiative on space for climate action

ESA and EC to unite on climate action from space

06/11/2023 6755 views 48 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Relive the Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

02/11/2023 2193 views 31 likes

EarthCARE for a better understanding of Earth's radiation balance

Gearing up for EarthCARE

27/10/2023 7287 views 79 likes

Commericalisation trends

Six trends to watch in commercial Earth observation

26/10/2023 10081 views 58 likes

Antarctic ice shelf melt

Antarctic ice shelf demise

13/10/2023 22860 views 118 likes

Soybean

Measuring nutrition in crops from space

10/10/2023 9649 views 87 likes

Tropical forest around the Capim River, Brazil

Younger trees champion carbon capture

05/10/2023 12006 views 112 likes

Ozone hole extension 2023

Ozone hole goes large again

04/10/2023 68801 views 79 likes

Sentinel-5P detected methane plumes

Trio of Sentinel satellites map methane super-emitters

20/09/2023 41005 views 156 likes

Morocco earthquake fringes

Sentinel-1 reveals shifts from Morocco earthquake

14/09/2023 14660 views 107 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Showcase your climate data visualisation talent

13/09/2023 7360 views 55 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 22227 views 86 likes

Land-surface temperature in Rome on 17 July 2023

Sensing city night heat from space

24/08/2023 8439 views 81 likes

The MTG Infrared Sounder prior to integration on MTG-S1

Putting the S in the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder

14/08/2023 6027 views 82 likes

Adelie penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctica vulnerable to extreme events

08/08/2023 7341 views 112 likes

Worldwide fires from ESA’s World Fire Atlas

Counting wildfires across the globe

03/08/2023 51371 views 107 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 17687 views 138 likes

Smoke plume from the Litli-Hrútur volcano

Litli-Hrútur eruption seen from space

26/07/2023 17110 views 75 likes

Rice fields, Mekong Delta

Satellites unveil the far-reaching impact of irrigation

25/07/2023 5369 views 88 likes

Faenza flood map

Satellites map aftermath of Emilia-Romagna floods

20/07/2023 14259 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 5222 views 89 likes

FutureEO

New strategy to keep pace with our changing world

18/07/2023 4398 views 83 likes

To the tune of Aeolus

The sound of Aeolus will blow you away

14/07/2023 6142 views 81 likes

Heatwave across Europe

Europe braces for sweltering July

13/07/2023 112267 views 213 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13931 views 192 likes

Lightning over Europe

European satellite strikes lightning

03/07/2023 19895 views 69 likes

Joining forces to address food security

Space to empower rural food producers

30/06/2023 2263 views 41 likes

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