Earth from Space: Tirana, Albania

2025-03-07, 13:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Albania's capital Tirana and its surroundings.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.The area ...

Nord Stream methane leak far bigger...

2025-03-05, 19:20 ESA

The methane emitted in 2022 by the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines was more than double the volume estimated at the time, according to a study published in Nature.The leak is among the biggest ever ...

Earth from Space: Maha Kumbh Mela...

2025-02-28, 13:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world's largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India.Recognised by Unesco in ...

Earth from Space: Tokyo, Japan

2025-02-21, 13:50 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image shows Tokyo and its metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.Japan's capital ...

Solar Orbiter ready for close...

2025-02-18, 14:20 ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.Today's flyby will be the first to significantly ?tilt' the ...

Earth from Space: Heart of Mount St...

2025-02-14, 14:40 ESA

For Valentine's Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission picks out a heart in the landscape north of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m ...

Forest mission on show

2025-02-12, 20:22 ESA

After years of meticulous development, ESA's next Earth Explorer satellite, Biomass, is ready to be packed up for transport to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, where it will launch aboard a ...

Earth from Space: Snow-capped Swiss Alps

2025-02-07, 11:55 ESA

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.Extending some 1200 km, the Alps occupy an area of about 200 000 sq km ...

ESA and Finland pave the way towards...

2025-02-04, 21:00 ESA

Today, ESA, the Finnish government and the Finnish Meteorological Institute took the initial steps towards establishing a ?supersite' for Earth observation calibration and validation in Sodankylä in ...

Top 10 persistent methane sources

2025-02-03, 13:29 ESA

A list of the top 10 global regions where natural or anthropogenic sources emit methane on a continuous, ?persistent' basis was recently published in a scientific journal.The study analysed data and ...