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Utah’s Great Salt Lake and its surroundings are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic in the Bay of Naples, in southern Italy.

The Maldives are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

On Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Roter Kamm impact crater in Namibia.

The Andes mountains, in southern Peru, are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.

A new online platform that allows for the tracking of air pollution worldwide is now available to the public.

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea.

This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2, takes us over part of Channel Country – a pastural region located mostly in southwest Queensland, Australia.

Images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission show the extent of the Arctic Circle oil spill

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Abu Dhabi – one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

This false-colour image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 shows the extent of an ice jam on the Athabasca River in Canada - leading to the flooding of Fort McMurray.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over San Francisco Bay in the US state of California.

Northwest Greenland is featured in this icy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission.

Southern Ukraine is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Namib Desert in western Namibia.

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, these beautiful views from space show the Dutch tulip fields coming into bloom.

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

The Venetian lagoon appears almost deserted following Italy's lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease - as seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Finistère – a French department in the west of Brittany.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta – a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East.

Victoria Falls

Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Let it snow

Andros, Bahamas

Houston, Texas

Bolivian highland heart

Iceberg shattered

Flevoland, the Netherlands

Lake George, Uganda

Deforestation in Bolivia

Japanese archipelago

Flooding in southern Iran

Faroe Islands

Smoke and flames in Australia

Tromsø, Norway

Methane leak visible from space

Baltic blooms

Mato Grosso, Brazil

Lake St. Clair

Floods in northern Italy

Seville, Spain

Smoke in New South Wales

Lake Tai, China

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