From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It ...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe's Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom's re-entry to the EU's Copernicus program, funding has been ...

Part of ESA’s Copernicus program, the constellation allows all-weather, day-night monitoring.

Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality. Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P – short for ...

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 ...

Copernicus Sentinel-4 is an ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared spectrometer carried on the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S) satellites. — ESA Copernicus Sentinel-4 is an ultraviolet, ...

After more than 10 years in orbit, the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2A, is still finding new ways to contribute to Earth observation. With its younger siblings, Sentinel-2B and ...

Thousands of fires have been breaking out in the Amazon rainforest and the rate of growth has been dramatically increasing, sparking widespread concern among environmentalists, governments and ...

A Belgium-led science team based in Antarctica used Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to plan an expedition that recovered one of the biggest meteorites ever found in Earth’s southernmost continent. The ...