Earth from Space: The Amazon plume
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over northern Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn ...
Radar journey to centre of...
A small, shoebox-sized spacecraft delivered to ESA's Hera mission this week promises to make a giant leap forward in planetary science. Once deployed from the Hera spacecraft at the Didymos binary ...
Vegetation gets a boost with data...
When it comes to predicting what our climate will be like in the future, vegetation matters. Plants and trees exert a powerful influence over both the energy cycle and the water cycle. And, ...
Euclid's sight restored
A newly devised procedure to de-ice Euclid's optics has performed significantly better than hoped. Light coming in to the visible ?VIS' instrument from distant stars was gradually decreasing due ...
SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge...
The Sun erupted over the weekend, flinging electromagnetic radiation towards Earth, even illuminating skies with spectacular aurora borealis. For the first time, ESA's unlikely space weather duo of ...
Building ChatGPT-style tools with...
Imagine being able to ask a chatbot, "Can you make me an extremely accurate classification map of crop cultivation in Kenya?" or "Are buildings subsiding in my street?" And imagine that the ...
Earth from Space: Southeast Kenya
The striking contrast of the diverse landscape in southeast Kenya is featured in this false-colour image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or ...
Media invitation: Last chance to see...
21 March 2024On 4 April, media representatives will have the opportunity to see the Arctic Weather Satellite up close in the cleanroom at OHB Sweden facilities in Stockholm, before the spacecraft is ...
Toward the next generation of air...
Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk in Europe and significantly impacts the health of the European population, particularly in urban areas.Following on from the Sentinel-5P ...
Operations begin to de-ice...
A few layers of water ice ? the width of a strand of DNA ? are starting to impact Euclid's vision; a common issue for spacecraft in the freezing cold of space, but a potential problem for this highly ...
