Tag: ESA

  • Earth from Space


    René Forsberg joins the programme at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss collecting gravity data at the South Pole to support GOCE

  • Water for crops


    By providing information on soil moisture around plant roots, ESA’s SMOS satellite is helping to forecast crop yield and monitor drought

  • Earth from Space


    Noel Gourmelen joins the programme at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss a new way of processing CryoSat data over ice sheets

  • Lunar ice drill


    Technology image of the week: this ice drill has been designed to penetrate 1–2 m into the surface of the Moon

  • From petabytes to pictures

    Thousands of scientists are at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague this week to present the latest findings on our changing planet. Between the mountains of data coming from multiple satellites and the high level of expertise needed to translate them into useful information, the results are not always easy to understand.

  • Dynamic peninsula


    Presented at the Living Planet Symposium, this map uses radar images from Sentinel-1A to show that Antarctic Peninsula ice flows up to a metre per day

  • Vacuum test


    ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet tries out a spacesuit

  • Earth’s magnetic heartbeat

    With more than two years of measurements by ESA’s Swarm satellite trio, changes in the strength of Earth’s magnetic field are being mapped in detail.

  • Galileo satellites fuelled for flight

    Europe’s latest Galileo satellites have been filled with fuel in preparation for their joint launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 24 May.

  • Transit of Mercury


    As the smallest planet in the Solar System crossed the fiery face of the Sun on Monday 9 May, one of ESA’s smallest satellites was watching

  • Earth from Space


    Wolfram Mauser, Chairman of the Earth Science Advisory Committee, joins us at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague to discuss some of the highlights from ESA’s Earth Explorer missions

  • Spotlight on our living planet

    One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world got off to a flying start today as thousands of scientists from around the world gathered in the Czech Republic to present their latest findings on our changing planet.

  • The eye of Saturn’s storm


    Space science image of the week: Saturn’s monstrous south pole vortex is a hurricane-like structure almost two thirds the diameter of Earth