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Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1

Crosson and Dotson Ice Shelves

Glacier velocity change 2005–2022

Velocity of glaciers feeding Crosson and Dotson Ice Shelves 2015–2022

Glacier velocity change 2005–2022 in numbers

Saharan dust plume from Copernicus Sentinel-3

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive at Cape Canaveral harbour

Biomass antenna deployment selfie

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida

Biomass antenna reflector deployed

Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass 12-metre-diameter antenna is now fully deployed.

Above-ground biomass 2022

Global above-ground biomass 2022

The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.

EarthCARE sees contrails over the Bay of Biscay

Biomass on its way to orbit aboard Vega-C

Forest mission takes to the skies

Vega-C lofts ESA’s Biomass into orbit

ESA’s Biomass lifts off aboard Vega-C

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass on its way to orbit

Vega-C takes Biomass into orbit

ESA’s forest mission launches

ESA’s forest mission lifts off

Biomass mission control team

Biomass on Vega-C ready for liftoff

Vega-C mobile gantry open

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this radar image over French Guiana – home to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, where ESA’s Biomass mission is being prepared for liftoff on 29 April onboard a Vega-C rocket.

Measuring the diameter of a tree in forest close to Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Groundwork in flooded forest in northern Peru

Measuring trees can be a bit of a balancing act

Scaling trees for science

Sentinel-1 radar image compared to interferogram

Myanmar earthquake coherence map from Sentinel-1

Myanmar interferogram from Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image of Myanmar

First Meteosat Third Generation Sounder bound for launch site

Meteosat Third Generation Sounder being loaded onto ship

Up the sails for ocean science

Checking in for the ESA Advanced Ocean Course

Aboard Statsraad Lehmkuhl

ESA Ocean Training Course sets sail

ESA’s Biomass satellite, encapsulated within a Vega-C rocket fairing, has been rolled out to the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of liftoff, planned for 29 April at 11:15 CEST.

ESA Ocean Training Course patch

ESA Advance Ocean Training Course route

Biomass in the launch tower

Biomass ready for liftoff

Biomass transfer and placement onto Vega-C

Sleeping arrangments aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl tall ship

Biomass posed on top of Vega-C

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