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With the 2026 Winter Olympics officially opening today, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us a striking view of northern Italy, highlighting several key Olympic venues.

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates collision zone

Tibetan Plateau horizontal displacement

Tibetan Plateau horizonal strain rate

Tibetan Plateau horizontal vectors

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China’s eastern seaboard.

ESA and Eumetsat sign for Sterna constellation

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

Global surface and cloud-top temperatures by MTG-Sounder

Temperatures over Europe and northern Africa by MTG-Sounder

P-band radar image captured from an aircraft

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

Forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass mission goes from commissioning to scientific operations

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us at the Brazilian-Bolivian border over part of the Pantanal region, a unique ecosystem, home to an impressive variety of plants and wildlife.

This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.

Sentinel-2A night imaging campaign

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Wildfire in India imaged by Sentinel-2A at night

Gas flares in Iraq imaged by Sentinel-2A

Fishing boats off South Korea imaged by Sentinel-2A at night

Wildfires in Patagonia

Clearing of tropical forest in Peru 1995–2020

Above ground biomass 2020

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

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Ice velocity on Greenland ice sheet, 2014–2024

Ice flow velocity on the Antarctic ice sheet, 2014–2024

This week Earth from Space features a wintery image: a red and white sphere that, if seen from a distance, resembles a festive decoration.

Sea-level height in the Gulf Stream, by Sentinel-6B

Informing landfill sites from space

Methane emissions from landfill

Following International Mountain Day, which creates awareness of the importance of mountain environments around the world, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Pariacaca Mountain Range in Peru.

High-energy protons during solar storm over the North Pole

High-energy proton flux over the polar regions

High-energy proton flux in polar regions, by Swarm

Aurora seen over Norway

ESA’s photosynthesis mission

Copernicus Contributing Missions

ROSE-L set up for acoustic testing

ROSE-L team

Kimberley, Western Australia

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.

EarthCARE improves estimates of the influence of clouds on Earth’s energy balance

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