With a quarter of the Earth’s land surface affected, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification…
Category: ESA
ESA
The Amazon from Space
This rare, almost cloudless Envisat view of part of the northeast coast of South America stretches…
Space improves life in the desert
An innovative tent, developed with the use of space concepts, is now on display at the…
Ringside view of Dione
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its only fly-by of Dione on 11 October 2005. Cassini…
The Violent Cosmos
Observing the cosmos, full of violent phenomena and extreme energy, has been the task of ESA’s…
Hawaii from Space
This Envisat image shows the volcanic island of Hawaii (Hawai’i), also known as the ‘Big Island’,…
Bat Inspires Space Tech
Metal detectors currently used for screening aircraft passengers could soon be supplanted by novel millimetre-wave cameras,…
Icy Dust-ball Comets
Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 made by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft after the Deep Impact collision suggest…
Wetlands Satellite Mapping
Earth’s wetlands are havens for wildlife and vital to the water cycle, but they are also…
Ulysses, fifteen years and going strong
Fifteen years after its launch, the grand ESA/NASA Ulysses space mission is still going strong, orbiting…