Northwest Italy and southern France

Acquired on 27 June 2015 at 10:25 UTC (12:25 CEST), just four days after launch, this first image from Sentinel-2A covers the Po Valley, framed by the Alps in the north and the coastal mountains of France and Italy in the south. 

Note: Due to the large size of these image files, full 10 m resolution are not available in these web downloads.

The stripes observed over water are expected artefacts due to the arrangement of the detectors in the multispectral instrument. Each detector has a slightly different viewing direction, which translates into marginal difference in the measured reflectances.