Last month, (July 2015) Europe’s Copernicus programme released this fascinating image of a glacier in Greenland. Environmental information helps us understand how our planet is changing and the role man-kind has to play in this. The Copernicus programme uses the …
Taken just 4 days after launch, this first image from Sentinel-2A shows the coastal mountains of France and Italy. Each detector in the multispectral instrument has a slightly different viewing direction. These different directions translate into marginal differences causing the …
An image over Russia’s Siberia region was released on the anniversary of Sentinel-1A’s orbit.
This combined image of scans taken by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows the fast-moving Pine Island glacier, which flowed about 100 m in less than 2 weeks (in pink). Light blue represents stable ice on either side of the stream. Pine Island …