Launched on 5 September 2024 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite has delivered its first images. These spectacular views of Earth offer a sneak peek at the data that this new satellite will provide for Copernicus – Europe’s world-leading Earth observation programme.
Thanks to the satellite’s impressive 290-km-wide swath, one of these first images, captured on 14 September, provides a long strip that stretches from the Camargue and Montpellier in southern France all the way down to south of Barcelona in Spain.
Zoom in to explore this image at 40 m spatial resolution.
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