The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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When Japan was struck by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake in March 2011, ERS-2 revisited the area every three days, measuring vertical ground deformation to centimetre accuracy. In this image, cloud computing joined the Taiwan receiving station CSRSR, ERS-2 satellite data, Mianmi’s Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing and CNR/IREA to provide timely data to the science community.