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  • Copernicus Thematic Services: Overview and Data Access (in Spanish)

    Copernicus Thematic Services: Overview and Data Access (in Spanish)

    Copernicus Thematic Services: Overview and Data Access (in Spanish) sonia Fri, 24/04/2026 – 13:25 Join our two-day webinar in Spanish on 12 and 13 May 2026, from 16:30 to 18:00 CEST. The webinar will introduce five of the thematic Services of Copernicus, the Earth Observation component of the EU Space Programme, covering how Earth Observation…


  • Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

    Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

    As sea ice continues to succumb to the climate crisis, measuring its decline with precision has never been more urgent. To meet this challenge, the European Space Agency is developing three new Copernicus satellites, each employing distinct but complementary techniques to monitor this fragile component of the Earth system. To ensure the data from these…


  • Earth from Space: Cloud patterns over the Canary Islands

    Earth from Space: Cloud patterns over the Canary Islands

    Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights a distinctive cloud formation north of the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Gomera.


  • Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

    Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

    The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica’s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.


  • 2026 CLMS General Assembly and user events

    2026 CLMS General Assembly and user events

    2026 CLMS General Assembly and user events admin Thu, 23/04/2026 – 14:46 When Jun 23, 2026 09.00 to Jun 25, 2026 14.00Time zone: Copenhagen, Denmark Where Veles e Vents in Valencia, Spain Contact name Claudia Alsager Type Conference Hosting organisation European Environment Agency and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Add event to calendar…


  • ESA Academy Case Studies Programme

    ESA Academy Case Studies Programme

    The ESA Academy Case Studies Programme invites student teams, enrolled in a tertiary education institution in an ESA Member State or Associate Member, to work on ESA-originated topics over a period of 2 to 6 months, with light mentoring from ESA experts. ESA Academy Case Studies can be integrated by professors into a course or…


  • A stellar milestone: Astro Pi programs on their way to the ISS

    A stellar milestone: Astro Pi programs on their way to the ISS

    The results are in! Today is the day student teams find out if their code has achieved flight status for the European Astro Pi Challenge 2025/2026! The first batches of Mission Space Lab programs are scheduled to start running on the International Space Station (ISS) this week, with Mission zero programs scheduled for mid-May.


  • Turning data from space into action for Earth

    Turning data from space into action for Earth

    Happy Earth Day, 22 April – a global call to act and protect our planet. At the European Space Agency, that action begins in orbit, where satellites deliver a continuous, global view of Earth and track environmental change. Working with partners, ESA turns this stream of data into actionable information through its FutureEO programme, helping…


  • Nordic cooperation on land cover and habitat mapping using earth observation

    Nordic cooperation on land cover and habitat mapping using earth observation

    Norrænn netviðburður um landgerð, landnotkun og vistgerðakortlagningu Þann 16. apríl 2026 tók Ísland þátt í skipulagningu norræns netviðburðar um landgerð, vistgerðakortlagningu, Copernicus Land og fjarkönnun jarðar. Viðburðurinn var skipulagður í samstarfi við önnur Norðurlönd sem hluti af National Collaboration Programme á vegum Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. Fundurinn leiddi saman þátttakendur víðs vegar af Norðurlöndum og…


  • Earth from Space: Land of rainforests

    Earth from Space: Land of rainforests

    Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.