Measuring water depths with satellites

Low-orbiting satellites equipped with light-measuring sensors can record how much light is reflected off the seabed,…

Cheops plaques

Two titanium plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been fixed to…

Cheops plaques

Two titanium plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been fixed to…

Radar footprints over buried Mars lake

ESA’s Mars Express radar team recently made an exciting announcement: data from their instrument points to…

Radar footprints over buried Mars lake

ESA’s Mars Express radar team recently made an exciting announcement: data from their instrument points to…

Hurricane Lane

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite took the temperature at the top of Hurricane Lane as it headed…

Hurricane Lane

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite took the temperature at the top of Hurricane Lane as it headed…

Dunes near Ulyxis Rupes

This beautiful dune field lies inside a crater near the south polar region of Mars.  The…

Dunes near Ulyxis Rupes

This beautiful dune field lies inside a crater near the south polar region of Mars.  The…

Why measure wind?

Learn how Earth’s wind is generated and why we need to measure it. Discover how ESA’s…