CDF podcast

NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast interviews ESA engineer Torsten Bieler on the Agency’s Concurrent Design…

ESA Open Days in Milan

Elementary and middle school children learned about Earth observation at the Living Planet Symposium in Milan…

Living Planet highlights

As the biggest Earth observation conference in the world draws to a close, we take a…

Mission control 'saves science'

Every minute, ESA’s Earth observation satellites gather dozens of gigabytes of data about our planet –…

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

Ice is without doubt one of the first casualties of climate change, but the effects of…

Josef Aschbacher discusses the future of Earth observation

As the Living Planet Symposium comes to an end, Josef Aschbacher, Director of Earth Observation Programmes…

Settling into old age

NGC 3384, visible in this image, has many of the features characteristic of so-called elliptical galaxies. Such…

Po Valley, Italy

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the Po Valley, the most densely populated area in Italy, accounting…

Earth from space: Po Valley

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme from the Living Planet Symposium in…

A quarter of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now unstable

By combining 25 years of ESA satellite data, scientists have discovered that warming ocean waters have…