July 12, 2017

Call for Media: First Copernicus air-quality monitoring satellite on show

Call for Media: First Copernicus air-quality monitoring satellite on show: Media are invited to see the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite on 20 July at Airbus in Stevenage, UK, before it is shipped to Russia for launch. As well as viewing this state-of-the-art Copernicus satellite in the cleanroom, media representatives will be able to learn how the mission will r…

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA: Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice more than twice the size of Luxembourg has now broken off, spawning one of the largest i…