Earth from Space: Land of giants

2025-03-21, 11:50 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click ...

Biomass out of the box

2025-03-17, 14:50 ESA

Following its arrival at Pariacabo harbour in Kourou, French Guiana, ESA's Biomass satellite has been rolled out of its shipment container, which kept it protected throughout its two-week voyage from ...

Sped-up simulation of Heras Mars flyby

2025-03-12, 15:20 ESA

On 12 March 2025 ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, ...

Three MetOp-SG-B weather siblings

2025-03-11, 13:20 ESA

While ESA, Eumetsat, space industry partners and the meteorological community gear up for the launch of the first MetOp Second Generation A satellite in August 2025, all three B-type satellites are ...

Watch live: Images from Heras Mars flyby

2025-03-10, 16:50 ESA

Join us live for a star-studded event this Thursday, as scientists working on ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence release the mission's first scientific observations beyond the Earth-Moon ...

Hera: Target Deimos

2025-03-10, 15:00 ESA

ESA's Hera's spacecraft's 12 March 2025 flyby of Mars brings it just 300 km from Deimos, the smaller and further distant of the planet's two moons. Deimos orbits 20 068 km away from the surface of ...

Hera Mars flyby

2025-03-10, 14:40 ESA

On 12 March 2025 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. Mars's gravity will shift the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its ...

Earth from Space: Tirana, Albania

2025-03-07, 13:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Albania's capital Tirana and its surroundings.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.The area ...

Nord Stream methane leak far bigger...

2025-03-05, 19:20 ESA

The methane emitted in 2022 by the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines was more than double the volume estimated at the time, according to a study published in Nature.The leak is among the biggest ever ...

Earth from Space: Maha Kumbh Mela...

2025-02-28, 13:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world's largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India.Recognised by Unesco in ...