Earth from Space: A veil of haze and...
This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image from October 2023 captures the plains of northern India and Pakistan under a white veil of haze and smoke.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or ...
New mission to track changes in the...
Tracking ice lost from the world?s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate. Monitoring the cryosphere is crucial for assessing, predicting and ...
Satellites increasingly critical to...
Playing a huge role in moderating the climate, oceans are fundamental to the functioning of our planet. Understanding more about how seawater temperatures are rising and how oceans are absorbing ...
ERS-2 reenters Earth?s atmosphere...
At approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on Wednesday 21 February 2024, ESA?s ERS-2 satellite completed its atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean. No damage to property has been ...
NanoMagSat and Tango Scout missions...
Further embracing the New Space era, ESA is to develop two new Scout satellites: NanoMagSat and Tango. NanoMagSat will measure Earth’s magnetic field to help assess space weather hazards and ...
ERS-2 spotted by other satellites...
ESA?s European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2) was recently spotted tumbling as it descends through the atmosphere. These images were captured by cameras on board other satellites by Australian ...
Tobago oil spill
Before and after satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the scale of the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Trinidad and Tobago?s coastline earlier this week. The ship, ...
Earth from Space: Côte d'Ivoire
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Côte d'Ivoire in western Africa. Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Côte d'Ivoire is ...
Saying goodbye to ERS-2
Every day the men and women of ESA?s technical heart head to work past this 1:1 model of pioneering Earth observation satellite, European Remote Sensing Spacecraft-2, ERS-2. Launched in 1995, the ...
What does a warming Arctic mean for...
The Arctic is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects. This rapid warming has profound implications ...
