Central Algeria: image of the week
Another gorgeous image from Sentinel-2A captured of the Sahara desert in central Algeria.
Earth observation
Watching over us: image of the week
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 …
Welcome to the fleet: Image of the Week
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 …
Sentinel-2A: image of the week
In the early hours of Tuesday (23 June 2015), we waved goodbye to Sentinel-2A as it was carried away on a Vega rocket.
50 Years of spacewalks: image of the week
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This week (3 June 2015) is the 50th anniversary of the first NASA spacewalk. Edward H. White II floated for more than 20 minutes in the microgravity of space on the Gemini IV mission in 1965. At the end of …
A year in space for Sentinel-1A: image of the week
An image over Russia’s Siberia region was released on the anniversary of Sentinel-1A’s orbit.
Fast ice: image of the week
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 …