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Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 18588 views 102 likes

With Easter right around the corner, we take a look at four egg-shaped buildings visible from space as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Easter egg hunt

02/04/2021 5658 views 36 likes

HydroGNSS

Second Scout gets the go-ahead

30/03/2021 7706 views 116 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 9629 views 152 likes

ESA–EGU award

ESA–EGU announce Excellence Award winners

26/03/2021 2535 views 38 likes

The Gariep Dam, the largest dam in South Africa, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Gariep Dam, South Africa

26/03/2021 23445 views 45 likes

SMOS turns to the Sun

Water mission takes on space weather

24/03/2021 4130 views 108 likes

Amazon rainforest

Earth from Space: Amazon rainforest

19/03/2021 10551 views 63 likes

Above ground biomass

Maps to improve forest biomass estimates

17/03/2021 10857 views 102 likes

Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over China

Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels

15/03/2021 14956 views 146 likes

The Strait of Gibraltar is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Strait of Gibraltar

12/03/2021 12480 views 41 likes

GOCE helps create new model of crust and upper mantle

Gravity mission still unearthing hidden secrets

11/03/2021 11237 views 130 likes

Magnetic data show links Antarctica to ancient neighbours

Antarctica’s magnetic link to ancient neighbours

09/03/2021 12726 views 143 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite

Contract signed to build Arctic weather satellite

09/03/2021 23540 views 142 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Galápagos Islands – a volcanic archipelago situated some 1000 km west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.

Earth from Space: Galápagos Islands

05/03/2021 11765 views 58 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 28870 views 203 likes

Rapid Action on COVID-19 and Earth observation Dashboard Challenges 2021

Space in response to COVID-19

03/03/2021 9243 views 70 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Vancouver – the third largest city in Canada.

Earth from Space: Vancouver

26/02/2021 6347 views 42 likes

Harmony

ESA moves forward with Harmony

23/02/2021 17478 views 147 likes

Getz glaciers flowing faster

Getz on the run

23/02/2021 4667 views 90 likes

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

19/02/2021 9716 views 94 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lusaka – the capital and largest city of Zambia.

Earth from Space: Lusaka, Zambia

19/02/2021 7370 views 43 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 8197 views 95 likes

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Valentine Island in northern Western Australia.

Earth from Space: Valentine Island

12/02/2021 5647 views 48 likes

Tracking sea-level change

Sentinel-6 passes in-orbit tests with flying colours

08/02/2021 6954 views 70 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the algal blooms swirling around the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Japan.

Earth from Space: Japan in bloom

05/02/2021 5376 views 55 likes

Polar vortex change

Aeolus shines a light on polar vortex

04/02/2021 14661 views 133 likes

A-68A and A-68G

Is this the end of the A-68A iceberg?

03/02/2021 20651 views 102 likes

Polar Arctic

Satellite observations prove crucial in new climate science…

02/02/2021 2344 views 49 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6523 views 89 likes

Ahead of World Wetlands Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Titicaca – one of the largest lakes in South America.

Earth from Space: Lake Titicaca

29/01/2021 7588 views 59 likes

Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Sardinia, Italy

27/01/2021 1572 views 1 likes

Area burned by fire in August 2019

New long-term dataset to analyse global fire trends

26/01/2021 7656 views 70 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 7781 views 58 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 18390 views 141 likes

Lake

Lake heatwaves to increase due to climate change

21/01/2021 4497 views 93 likes

Energy from solar wind favours the north

Energy from solar wind favours the north

12/01/2021 9931 views 141 likes

Depth of the A-68A iceberg

A-68A iceberg thinning at 2.5 cm per day

23/12/2020 10744 views 125 likes

A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

Giant A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

18/12/2020 11723 views 127 likes

Medical lab

Cholera outbreaks predicted using climate data and AI

17/12/2020 11423 views 88 likes

Average ground temperature 2007-2018

Long-term permafrost record details Arctic thaw

16/12/2020 7428 views 100 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 over the Andes

Galileo enhancing Sentinel-6’s sea level monitoring mission

15/12/2020 4050 views 44 likes

Thwaites glacier seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2

CryoSat reveals surprising ebb and flow of subglacial lakes

14/12/2020 5227 views 66 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 15964 views 121 likes

Great Barrier Reef

Reef Support wins Copernicus Masters top prize

10/12/2020 2638 views 39 likes

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

Sea-level monitoring satellite first results surpass expect…

10/12/2020 11594 views 94 likes

Antarctic landscape

Places in Antarctica named in honour of ice scientists

09/12/2020 4783 views 61 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 5341 views 82 likes

ROSE-L

Contract signed for new Copernicus ROSE-L mission

03/12/2020 12906 views 71 likes

ESP-MACCS

ESA paves the way for first Earth observation Scout mission

03/12/2020 6771 views 61 likes

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