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The mission

Sentinel-5 Precursor – also known as Sentinel-5P – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases, which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health and our climate.

The launch

Date: 13 October 2017
Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Launcher: Rockot

2600 km swath width
7 years mission life
824 km orbit altitude

Sentinel-5P

Ozone hole extension 2022

How do satellites monitor the ozone layer?

16/09/2022 10123 views 59 likes

Great Salt Lake in July 2022

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing

01/08/2022 35647 views 134 likes

Methane growth anomaly

Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns

23/06/2022 11462 views 86 likes

GHGSat Contract Ceremony

GHGSat joins ESA’s Third Party Mission Programme

24/05/2022 1876 views 35 likes

Rybnik, Poland

Methane detected over Poland’s coal mines

21/03/2022 11725 views 103 likes

Fuelling the climate crisis

ESA supports the White House on greenhouse gas monitoring

24/01/2022 3203 views 58 likes

Landfill site

Satellites detect large methane emissions from Madrid landf…

10/11/2021 21313 views 168 likes

ESA and GHGSat support new International Methane Emissions …

03/11/2021 3739 views 55 likes

La Palma as captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

La Palma volcano: How satellites help us monitor eruptions

11/10/2021 29454 views 184 likes

Smoke and flames in Australia

Aerosols released from Australian bushfires triggers algal …

30/09/2021 6582 views 73 likes

A map of the ozone hole over the South Pole on 16 September 2021

What’s going on with the ozone?

16/09/2021 11615 views 108 likes

California fires

California continues to burn

15/09/2021 9583 views 102 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 18730 views 102 likes

Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over China

Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels

15/03/2021 15009 views 146 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 28925 views 203 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 16020 views 121 likes

Nitrogen dioxide emissions over the Mediterranean

Detecting pollution from individual ships from space

09/11/2020 13294 views 160 likes

Ozone hole 2020

Antarctic ozone hole is one of the largest and deepest in r…

19/10/2020 15420 views 95 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 8602 views 84 likes

Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over Europe

Air pollution in a post-COVID-19 world

18/09/2020 15650 views 103 likes

Methane from landfill site in Argentina

High-resolution methane emissions data for waste management

17/09/2020 7504 views 79 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3899 views 48 likes

Methane plume from oil & gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea region

New Space satellite pinpoints industrial methane emissions

29/07/2020 10473 views 82 likes

Aerosols from Saharan dust plume

Satellites track unusual Saharan dust plume

09/07/2020 26420 views 95 likes

Sulphur dioxide concentrations drop over India during COVID…

01/07/2020 12589 views 58 likes

Methane concentrations over the Permian Basin

Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19

01/06/2020 12478 views 109 likes

Mapping methane emissions on a global scale

04/05/2020 47066 views 166 likes

Air pollution drops in India following lockdown

24/04/2020 31105 views 93 likes

NO2 concentrations over Europe

Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home

16/04/2020 52907 views 173 likes

Satellites providing clear picture of greenhouse gases

14/04/2020 15587 views 115 likes

Unusual ozone hole opens over the Arctic

06/04/2020 44541 views 169 likes

Coronavirus: nitrogen dioxide concentrations over Europe

Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution across Eu…

27/03/2020 159533 views 634 likes

COVID-19: nitrogen dioxide over China

19/03/2020 119562 views 164 likes

Smoke over New South Wales, Australia, from Copernicus Sentinel-3

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14836 views 140 likes

Ozone hole set to close

Ozone hole set to close

08/11/2019 22947 views 92 likes

Carbon monoxide from Amazon fires

Monitoring air pollution from fires

09/09/2019 14498 views 136 likes

Nitrogen dioxide over Siberian pipelines

Connecting the dots: nitrogen dioxide over Siberian pipelin…

20/06/2019 11002 views 126 likes

The air we breathe

16/05/2019 20403 views 98 likes

Nitrogen dioxide worldwide

Nitrogen dioxide pollution mapped

12/03/2019 82743 views 328 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10813 views 90 likes

Global methane

Methane and ozone data products from Copernicus Sentinel-5P

04/03/2019 19159 views 114 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-5P ozone boosts daily forecasts

05/12/2018 8137 views 60 likes

Formaldehyde

Copernicus Sentinel-5P reveals new nasties

24/10/2018 23031 views 191 likes

Antarctic ozone September 2018

New kid on the block picks up relay for ozone

14/09/2018 6067 views 93 likes

Air pollution movement

Copernicus Sentinel-5P releases first data

11/07/2018 32112 views 127 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6139 views 93 likes

Sentinel-5P sees nitrogen dioxide over Europe

Sentinel-5P brings air pollution into focus

01/12/2017 63230 views 387 likes

Sulphur dioxide over Europe from OMI

Taking air-quality inventories to new heights

30/11/2017 8251 views 53 likes

Nitrogen dioxide forecast

Ready to reap the benefits from Copernicus Sentinel-5P

31/10/2017 6369 views 48 likes

Sentinel-5P liftoff

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-5P: satellite in excellent health

16/10/2017 5774 views 92 likes

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