Pine Island retreat

Pine Island is the largest glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and one of the…

ESA at the Big Bang Fair

ESA at the Big Bang Fair 2014 The Big Bang is the largest celebration of science,…

Togged up in ‘scape suits’

Fuelling a satellite is particularly dangerous, so the team has to wear ‘scape suits’ for protection.…

Sentinel-1 fully loaded

The Sentinel-1A satellite is now fuelled. This rather hazardous operation cannot be rushed and took a…

Ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise

This animation merges 20 years of satellite data to demonstrate how much – and how fast…

Star-forming region ON2

Massive stars are born in tumultuous clouds of gas and dust. They lead a brief but…

Sentinel-1: seeing through clouds

As an advanced radar mission, Sentinel-1 can image the surface of Earth through cloud and rain…

Safer seas with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 delivers radar imagery for numerous applications. Images acquired over the ocean are essential for generating…

ESRIN Open Days 18-21 March: a “global” experience

ESRIN’s Open Days 2014 gave 1400 young students and their teachers a rare opportunity to learn…

When can we see the comet?

Visualisation of how comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will appear in Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow angle camera between May and…