ESA - Observing the Earth - Archive

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Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 4314 views 57 likes

Cyber-resilience

Enabling & Support

Satellite Evidence in the Courtroom

19/05/2026 1201 views 7 likes

The StatEO26 conference was held at ESA’s Esrin site in Italy.

Earth observation data for the policymaking of tomorrow

08/05/2026 1962 views 14 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Watch live: selected sessions from the ESA CommEO Forum

08/05/2026 889 views 19 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2711 views 59 likes

Fourteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 3273 views 49 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 4210 views 44 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 1369 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe’s radar missi…

01/05/2026 6144 views 69 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 6348 views 90 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 3021 views 54 likes

Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.

Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

23/04/2026 28201 views 56 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 3094 views 33 likes

FLEX, Sentinel-3C and MTG-I2 on show at TAS cleanrooms

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 4749 views 59 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 3171 views 62 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 2264 views 25 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2572 views 40 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 6313 views 49 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 1164 views 20 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 3190 views 50 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 2041 views 34 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 3094 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 3001 views 54 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1562 views 17 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 1379 views 23 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1827 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 5173 views 59 likes

Timelapse: deploying MetOp-SG-B1’s solar wing

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2886 views 66 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 8752 views 67 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 3456 views 53 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 14715 views 95 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 7885 views 89 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2739 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 13056 views 81 likes

Atmospheric humidity from MTG-Sounder

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first…

27/01/2026 90019 views 89 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all

26/01/2026 14763 views 114 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 4296 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 13109 views 130 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3760 views 57 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 6853 views 43 likes

Sea-level height in the Gulf Stream, by Sentinel-6B

First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy

16/12/2025 3695 views 40 likes

Methane from landfill site

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

15/12/2025 6789 views 68 likes

High-energy protons during solar storm over the North Pole

Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm

11/12/2025 10373 views 79 likes

ROSE-L set up for acoustic testing

ROSE-L given the shakes

08/12/2025 2792 views 18 likes

EarthCARE improves estimates of how clouds influence Earth’s energy balance

EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models

03/12/2025 5651 views 70 likes

IRIDE’s Eaglet II satellites launched from Vandenberg

Italian mission adds to growing IRIDE space fleet

29/11/2025 3411 views 27 likes

Athens from ICEYE

High-resolution radar satellites launched for Greece

29/11/2025 12480 views 53 likes

HydroGNSS launched to ‘scout’ for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS mission launched to ‘scout’ for water

28/11/2025 4848 views 45 likes

The European Space Agency has signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø.

ESA and Norway explore possibility of Arctic Space Centre

27/11/2025 4289 views 31 likes

HydroGNSS

Watch: HydroGNSS, IRIDE and Greek mission satellites launch

26/11/2025 6433 views 65 likes

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