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A record-breaking drought has caused parts of the Yangtze River to dry up – affecting hydropower, shipping routes and limiting drinking water supplies. Images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission show a comparison of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, near Chongqing, over the last three years.

Hunting for marine plastic

Competitors of the Vendée Globe sailing race are now nearing the finishing point, but while they were near the treacherous iceberg-infested waters of the Southern Ocean they remained relatively safe thanks to satellite observations.

First map of global shipping captured by the ESAIL satellite

All 1200 islands that make up the Republic of Maldives are featured in this spectacular image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over New York City – the most populous city in the United States.

Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas.

Maritime traffic around British Isles

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea, along the west coast of India.

Satellite images are being used to monitor the oil spill off the coast of Mauritius.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime traffic in the Bay of Naples, in southern Italy.

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over San Francisco Bay in the US state of California.

Satellite design applied to superyacht

Japanese archipelago

What looks like jelly is actually water at 20 times Earth gravity

Baltic blooms

Holbox Island, Mexico

Ocean surface wind speed derived from SMOS

Copernicus Sentinel-1 over Typhoon Hagibis

Ocean surface wind speed of Typhoon Hagibis derived from Copernicus Sentinel-1

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