Earth from Space: Ouarzazate, Morocco
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.This image ...
Earth from Space: Sending love from...
For Valentine's Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this ...
Intense rainfall brings floods across...
Satellite data have captured the intensity of rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula during three severe winter storms, and the extent of flooding that followed around the Tejo River and basin in ...
New satellite view of Tibets tectonic...
A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the continents are less rigid than scientists previously thought. This finding is ...
Earth from Space: Rudong coast, China
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the coastal area of Rudong County on China's eastern seaboard.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m ...
Arctic Weather Satellite paves way...
Already recognised for its excellence and even adopted for operational weather forecasting, the European Space Agency's Arctic Weather Satellite has now fulfilled its most important role. This small ...
Earth from Space: Pantanal
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us at the Brazilian-Bolivian border over part of the Pantanal region, a unique ecosystem, home to an impressive variety of plants and wildlife.Zoom in or click ...
Smoke plumes from Chile wildfires...
This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.The fires have been burning in numerous locations along Chile's coast, ...
Earth from Space: The fate of a giant
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 ...
10 asteroids named to honour ESAs...
In 2025, the International Astronomical Union approved the naming of 10 asteroids after people and places associated with the European Space Agency's (ESA) efforts to discover, monitor, explore and ...
