Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

2024-05-22, 16:19 ESA

While a meteor lit up the skies over Spain and Portugal recently, it was also captured by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager weather satellite hovering 36,000 km away in geostationary orbit.On 18 ...

EarthCARE pre-launch press briefing

2024-05-21, 22:23 ESA

ESA's Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is designed to advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back out ...

Earth from Space: New Zealands North...

2024-05-17, 15:23 ESA

Captured on 7 May 2024, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of New Zealand's North Island.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn ...

Media advisory: EarthCARE launch...

2024-05-17, 15:08 ESA

17 May 2024ESA's EarthCARE mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, no earlier than Tuesday 28 May 2024.EarthCARE is the most complex of all of ...

What does EarthCARE mean to me?

2024-05-17, 14:53 ESA

A new satellite called EarthCARE launching later this month will provide unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols, contributing to our understanding of climate change. As we approach its launch, ...

EarthCARE mission kit

2024-05-17, 10:20 ESA

Explore this mission kit to learn more about EarthCARE ? ESA's new mission that will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth's climate. This is an interactive ...

Canadas wildfire season begins

2024-05-16, 16:24 ESA

Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and Alberta due to the danger of uncontrolled blazes.Hazardous smoke ...

Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing...

2024-05-15, 18:57 ESA

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, has experienced an issue that is preventing the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at full power.BepiColombo is a three-part spacecraft ...

The spacecraft control centre of the...

2024-05-14, 11:30 ESA

"ESA's new operations centre will be efficient, sustainable, adaptable and accessible," says Rolf Densing, ESA's Director of Operations and head of the ESOC site. "The new building will ensure ...

Earth from Space: Bolivian salt lakes

2024-05-10, 11:51 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features salt flats and lakes in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes Mountains. Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the ...