Greenland glaciers

Ryder Glacier terminus in northern Greenland (81.800280 N, -50.612981 W) captured by Sentinel-2A. Satellite imagery is…

Libya desert

The colours and structure of Libya’s desert are shown in this true-colour image from Sentinel-2A, a…

Libyan dunes

Sentinel-2A lives up to its promise of offering ‘colour vision for Copernicus’ in this image displaying…

Comet on 20 July 2015 – NavCam

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 20 July 2015…

MSG-4 completes LEOP

At mid-day on 26 July, ESA formally handed control of Europe’s last Meteosat Second Generation weather…

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…