ESA - Envisat - Archive

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The mission

Envisat was the largest Earth observation spacecraft ever built. The mission delivered thousands of images and a wealth of data used to study the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change. The end of the mission was declared on 9 May 2012, but ten years of Envisat’s archived data continue to be exploited for studying our planet.

The launch

Date: 01 March 2002
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Rocket: Ariane 5

8-tonne satellite
10 instruments
10 yrs in orbit

Envisat

First-class views of the world below

21/11/2011 1304 views 2 likes

Subsidence of Italy

Slight surface changes detected from space

13/10/2011 1689 views 2 likes

New Zealand

Around the world – 50 000 times

23/09/2011 1217 views 0 likes

Envisat image of the Arctic

Arctic ice nears record low

14/09/2011 2861 views 1 likes

Diminishing Arctic sea ice

Arctic shipping routes open

25/08/2011 7594 views 7 likes

Revealed: an ice sheet on the move

18/08/2011 1208 views 2 likes

Sulzberger Ice Shelf

Japan tsunami caused icebergs to break off in Antarctica

09/08/2011 10539 views 9 likes

Interception of illegal fishing

Pooled satellite data for maritime surveillance on the hori…

18/07/2011 6169 views 5 likes

Rough sea

The world's ocean waves now in one place

10/06/2011 17337 views 22 likes

Fish farm growing Atlantic salmon

New ESA project supports aquaculture

10/06/2011 2460 views 18 likes

Satellite observations show potential to improve ash cloud …

26/05/2011 2274 views 0 likes

Antarctica's Drygalski Ice Tongue

ESA expands its Earth-exploring service

03/05/2011 4683 views 6 likes

Record loss of ozone over Arctic

04/04/2011 2785 views 0 likes

Interferogram showing ground movement

Earth movements from Japan earthquake seen from space

30/03/2011 9731 views 5 likes

Weekly composite map

New land maps available in time for spring

29/03/2011 1101 views 2 likes

Snow grain size

ESA project reveals new insight into complexities of snow

23/03/2011 1255 views 1 likes

Coast guards meeting at ESRIN

Coast guards prepare for greater surveillance from space

11/02/2011 1707 views 0 likes

Port of Tallinn dredging works

ESA's sharp eyes on coastal waters

09/02/2011 2146 views 0 likes

Volcanic eruptions in Japan captured by Envisat

Envisat captures volcanic eruptions in Japan today

04/02/2011 1232 views 0 likes

Satellite data to improve flood forecasting

26/01/2011 3951 views 5 likes

Etna eruption seen by Envisat

Mount Etna bursts into life – new image

14/01/2011 2637 views 1 likes

ESA’s 2009 global land cover map

ESA unveils latest map of world’s land cover

21/12/2010 13880 views 30 likes

Hairy crab invasion

ESA satellite data reduce invasion of alien species

20/12/2010 2538 views 1 likes

Atmospheric methane 2003–09

Satellites unravel complex relationship between northern fo…

15/12/2010 1606 views 0 likes

GlobCorine map 2009

Express map delivery from space

23/11/2010 3928 views 3 likes

Merapi sulphur dioxide (SO2) plume movement (infrared)

Satellites tracking Mt Merapi volcanic ash clouds

15/11/2010 8193 views 4 likes

Last 'tango' in space

02/11/2010 2841 views 0 likes

Envisat

Envisat in its new home

28/10/2010 2831 views 4 likes

Oil spill extent in mid-May

Bluefin tuna hit hard by ‘Deepwater Horizon’ disaster

18/10/2010 4350 views 4 likes

Volcanic cones along lava path

Insight into volcanic eruptions, courtesy of space

15/10/2010 1205 views 1 likes

Gulf of Mexico oil spill seen from space

ESA and oil industries explore applications from space

04/10/2010 3788 views 5 likes

Satellites reveal Russian fires worst in 14 years

13/09/2010 1893 views 1 likes

GlobGlacier final meeting in Zermatt

ESA GlobGlacier project makes important contribution

08/09/2010 1145 views 1 likes

Mapping flood with Envisat's radar

Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan

02/09/2010 1979 views 0 likes

Greenland glacier gives birth to giant iceberg

09/08/2010 3708 views 2 likes

Thinning ice sheets

30/06/2010 812 views 0 likes

Oil still entering Loop Current

29/06/2010 683 views 0 likes

Carbon dioxide on the rise

28/06/2010 1734 views 3 likes

ASAR image 18 May

Gulf of Mexico oil spill in the Loop Current

19/05/2010 4041 views 0 likes

Ash cloud from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano

Envisat captures renewed volcanic activity

07/05/2010 1234 views 2 likes

ASAR product for 29 April

Envisat monitors oil spill proximity to Loop Current

05/05/2010 2205 views 0 likes

Radar image acquired on 2 May

Envisat monitoring changes in oil spill

03/05/2010 3439 views 1 likes

Oil spill nears the coast

Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico nears the coast

30/04/2010 2949 views 4 likes

Envisat radar image of the oil spill

ESA’s Envisat monitors oil spill

27/04/2010 3259 views 2 likes

Development of the ash plume from Iceland’s volcano

Envisat keeping an eye on the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano

21/04/2010 1739 views 2 likes

Plume of ash from the Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano

New satellite image of ash spewing from Iceland’s volcano

19/04/2010 15164 views 42 likes

Volcanic ash sweeping across northern Europe

New satellite image of volcanic ash cloud

15/04/2010 3726 views 7 likes

Spring from space

01/04/2010 1178 views 0 likes

Boreal forest

New boreal forest biomass maps produced from radar satellit…

25/03/2010 4354 views 3 likes

Mount Nyamulagira

Congo receives help from space after volcano eruption

22/01/2010 2182 views 0 likes

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