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New Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar images show a giant iceberg breaking off from the northern section of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

France

Lake Chad’s shrinking waters

Vesuvius on fire

Sentinel-3: better than good

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures a spectacular geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania: the Richat Structure.

Richat structure, Mauritania

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Tenerife, Canary Islands

United Kingdom

Egmont National Park, New Zealand

Korean Peninsula

India is currently facing a prolonged heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 42°C in numerous cities across the country. This map, generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3, shows the land surface temperature on 29 April.

Magnetic field sound waves

Mount Fuji, Japan

Romania

Nitrogen dioxide over Europe

Stark reality of Californian drought from space

Scandinavian Peninsula

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow.

Giant berg on collision course with South Georgia

Apollo 11 launch pad

Giant berg on the move

African land cover

Etna erupts

Crop map

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday – spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. This image, captured on 13 November by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, has been processed using the mission’s shortwave-infrared bands to show the lava flow at the time of acquisition.

CO2M mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia.

Po Valley, Italy

2011 GOCE geoid

Siberian wildfires

The heat is on

Land cover 2010

Earth seen by Meteosat

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

CHIME

Berlin from Sentinel-1A via laser

Nitrogen dioxide worldwide

Sentinel family

Tonga

This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal, in the barren desert of northern Saudi Arabia.

French Riviera

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Nepal earthquake displacement

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Adam’s Bridge, a chain of shoals linking India and Sri Lanka.

Dasht-e Lut salt desert, Iran

Mapping Germany’s agricultural landscape

San Francisco Bay Area, USA

Dead Sea, Middle East

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