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City by the mountains

Technology image of the week: Populous Santiago in Chile, set to host the next UN Climate Change Conference, viewed by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite

Proba-V is six

Technology image of the week: the snow-capped peaks of New Zealand’s South Island, taken by ESA’s Earth-observing minisatellite, into its sixth year in orbit

Anchor antenna

Technology image of the week: This compact radio antenna is designed to help position the two Proba-3 satellites together for formation flying, to form an artificial solar eclipse in space

Tortoise islands

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the Galápagos island chain, inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

Daily Sun

Space Science Image of the Week: Look back at the activity of our Sun over the last year thanks to the continuous monitoring of Proba-2

The desert that ate a sea

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite views efforts to stabilise a newly formed desert and salvage the shrinking Aral Sea

Point of impact

Technology image of the week: ESA’s technology-testing Proba-V minisatellite images the location of the impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago

Double eclipse

Space Science Image of the Week: The Proba-2 satellite saw two partial solar eclipses on Saturday

The drying of Europe

An at-a-glance comparison of European vegetation from May to July 2018, as seen from ESA's Proba-V Earth-observing minisatellite, produced by VITO in Belgium

Teenage Earth observer

Technology image of the week: more than 16 years old and still growing strong, the Proba-1 microsatellite takes a look at Guam

Antarctic explorer

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite has surveyed Antarctica

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Catching the world in a box15 February 2019

Catching the world in a box15 February 2019 The rapid evolution of Egypt’s Nile Delta over the last four years, as viewed from ESA’s Proba-V microsatellite. Think of it as a small token of our love for planet Earth: just a cubic metre in size, Proba-V maps land cover and vegetation growth acros...

Public competition to sharpen views from Proba-V minisatellite12 October 2018

Public competition to sharpen views from Proba-V minisatellite12 October 2018 ESA is challenging ‘citizen scientists’ to apply the latest AI and image processing techniques to upscale images acquired by the Earth-watching Proba-V minisatellite.

Proba-1 sets new record08 March 2018

Proba-1 sets new record08 March 2018 Originally designed as a two-year mission and launched on 22 October 2001, Proba-1 is still going strong, providing very valuable hyperspectral data.

ESA’s Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses 17 August 2017

ESA’s Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses 17 August 2017 Astrophysicists are joining sightseers in watching Monday’s total solar eclipse across North America but, in the decade to come, they will be viewing eclipses that last for hours instead of a few minutes – thanks to a pioneering ESA space mission.

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System 15 August 2017

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System 15 August 2017 Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

Science backing for formation-flying Sun-watcher Proba-317 July 2017

Science backing for formation-flying Sun-watcher Proba-317 July 2017 ESA’s Science Programme has agreed to support the technology-demonstrating Proba-3, a double-satellite formation-flying mission tasked with observing a region of the Sun normally hidden from view.

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