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Smile deploys its magnetometer boom (artist impression)

Smile fires its boosters (artist impression)

Smile deploys its magnetometer boom (artist impression, GIF)

Smile fires its boosters (artist impression, GIF)

Proba-2's view from Earth orbit of an annular solar eclipse

ESA medical doctor Sarah Gaier tests water from the recycling system at Concordia station in Antarctica

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.

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

Year in images 2025

Nina Purvis, the ESA-sponsored doctor at Concordia station during the winterover of 2024-2025, in the ESA laboratory

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Elbe River delta by Sentinel-1D

Bremen by Sentinel-1D

Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Tierra del Fuego by Sentinel-1D

Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers by Sentinel-1D

ESA medical doctors Nina Purvis and Sarah Gaier meet in Antarctica at the coastal station Mario Zuchelli

CryoSat patch

ESA spots asteroid that made very close approach to Earth

Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.

Antarctic subglacial lake inventory

From Antarctica’s Concordia Station, the crew captured the 8 September 2025 total lunar eclipse, while ESA-sponsored doctor Nina Purvis studies human adaptation to extreme conditions for future Moon and Mars missions.

Sea-surface salinity around Antarctica

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

Glacier ice velocity 1996–2016, West Antarctica

Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1

Biomass beyond forests

The southern lights at Concordia station in Antarctica

The icy landscape of Ross Island in Antarctica is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 3 February 2024, during the austral summer.

Long, thin snow dunes

Stratospheric clouds and gravity waves over Antarctica

Freezing boiling water in Concordia against the sunset

An iceberg roughly the size of the Isle of Wight has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on 20 May.

Southern lights by NASA's IMAGE satellite

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the ice tongue of the Dawson-Lambton Glacier in Antarctica.

As the holiday season swiftly approaches, frosty landscapes tend to be associated with the magical idea of a white Christmas. But this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image over the Antarctic Peninsula sheds light on a different perspective.

The last members of the European Antarctic crew DC19 say goodbye to Concordia after spending a year at the research station in Antarctica

After being grounded on the ocean floor for well over four decades, the largest iceberg in the world is on the loose.

Icebergs in the Amundsen Sea, off the west coast of Antarctica

This rare, almost cloud-free view of the remote Elephant Island in Antarctica was captured in February 2023 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

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