{"id":1439,"date":"2025-07-01T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/mtg-s1-and-sentinel-4-launch-to-change-how-we-see-our-atmosphere\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:30:00","slug":"mtg-s1-and-sentinel-4-launch-to-change-how-we-see-our-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/mtg-s1-and-sentinel-4-launch-to-change-how-we-see-our-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/07\/mtg-s1_and_sentinel-4_take_to_the_skies\/26782777-6-eng-GB\/MTG-S1_and_Sentinel-4_take_to_the_skies_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take to the skies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its way to monitor Earth\u2019s atmosphere from an altitude of 36 000 km. From this geostationary orbit, the missions can provide game-changing data for forecasting severe storms and air pollution over Europe.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its way to monitor Earth\u2019s atmosphere from an altitude of 36 000 km. From this geostationary orbit, the missions can provide game-changing data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}