At mid-day on 26 July, ESA formally handed control of Europe’s last Meteosat Second Generation weather…
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Sentinel-2 for agriculture
Sentinel-2 is the first optical Earth observation mission of its kind to include three bands in…
Watching coastal waters
Acquired on 4 July 2015 over Italy’s Venice lagoon, this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite demonstrates…
Agriculture in Saudi Arabia
This false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A satellite shows agricultural structures near Tubarjal, Saudi Arabia. Circles come…
Born-again planetary nebula
Beneath the vivid hues of this eye-shaped cloud, named Abell 78, a tale of stellar life…
Sentinel-2: an introduction
An introduction to the Sentinel-2 mission for Europe’s Copernicus programme and some of its benefits for…
Geophysics with GOCE
To be able to measure the strength of Earth’s gravity, the GOCE satellite flew in an…
NEEMO 20 crew
Since 20 July, the twentieth NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations campaign, or NEEMO 20, is underway.…
A galactic nursery
This dramatic image shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s view of dwarf galaxy known as NGC…
Southern Bavaria
This image from Sentinel-1A’s radar captures part of Germany’s state of Bavaria, with the city of…