Earth from Space: Svalbard Archipelago
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click ...
Biomass, an oversized football and...
ESA's forest mission Biomass will be supported by a custom-built transponder antenna installed in New Norcia, Australia.The satellite will fly over the transponder to calibrate its instrument during ...
Platos dialogue
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (Plato) mission is gearing up to explore one of science's biggest questions: are there other Earth-like planets out ...
Biomass completes a relay race of a LEOP
Mission control at ESA's European Space Operations Centre has completed the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for ESA's Biomass, after nine days of intense work.Making a satellite ready ...
Earth from Space: Northwest Sardinia,...
Part of the Italian island of Sardinia is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to ...
Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice...
Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows ? at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers ...
MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take a step...
Fresh from the cleanroom in Bremen, Germany, the second of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission have arrived at Cape Canaveral ...
Forest satellites big antenna opens up
Just a week after its launch, ESA's Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path to delivering unprecedented insights into the world's forests and their vital role in Earth's ...
ESA unveils longest-ever dataset on...
As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on 29 April, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning ...
Earth from Space: Worlds biggest iceberg
The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth's biggest iceberg, A23a, on 5 April 2025.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution.The ice mass ...
