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Milan, Italy

Fanned by very strong winds, a wildfire is ripping through the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California. This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission vividly depicts the smoke billowing from the fire near Santa Monica on 7 January 2025, not long after the fire broke out.

Tokyo

Madrid

A rare, cloud-free view of Iceland is visible in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 14 August 2020.

Berlin, Germany

Azores islands

Hundreds of residents and tourists have been evacuated from the Greek island of Lesbos after a wildfire broke out on the morning of 23 July. This image, captured by Sentinel-2, shows the active fire front which stretches for more than four km.

Hungary

Victoria Falls

Dutch mosaic

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Danube Delta – the second largest river delta in Europe.

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

Sentinel-5P sees sulphur dioxide from the Ambae volcano in the South Pacific Ocean

Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured an image over the region yesterday, 30 November 2025, as well an image one month ago, showing the extent of flooding.

Dasht-e Kavir

Mont Saint-Michel

Magnetic field changes

South Kalimantan, Borneo

South Georgia Island

As this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image captured today shows, the Netherlands remains pretty much snow-covered thanks to days of sub-zero temperatures following the country’s first major snowstorm in a decade.

Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay

The heatwave now hitting parts of western Canada and the US has been particularly devastating. This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows land surface temperature.

A mosaic of satellite images showing a cloud-free Europe

Eye of the storm

Earth's protective shield

Golden curves

Methane leak visible from space

Rome

Global map of land-cover dynamics

Floating city

Japanese archipelago

Rub’ al Khali desert

Cracks in the Brunt ice shelf, Antarctica

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the Japanese island of Nishinoshima, in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Central Algeria

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Northern Italy

Aorounga Crater in northern Chad

Washington DC

Land-surface temperature in Milan on 18 June 2022

Catalan coast, Spain

Mediterranean Wonders

Lake Malawi, Great Rift Valley

Yukon Delta

Nitrogen dioxide over the Netherlands

English Channel

All 1200 islands that make up the Republic of Maldives are featured in this spectacular image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3.

La Palma as captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

Colours of the Persian Gulf

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