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Watching the

weather

from

space

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Monitoring

the

atmosphere

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Keeping

an eye on

the

oceans

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Climate

monitoring

from

space

The place to learn about monitoring the weather and climate from space

  • Spacecraft

    Find out all about Europe's fleet of weather satellites

  • Weather

    Everything you need to know about watching the weather from space, plus see a real-time view of the Earth from 36,000 km

  • Atmosphere

    Whether it's monitoring air quality, fires, dust storms or the ozone layer, satellites are involved...

  • Oceans

    Above and below the waves - discover how satellites are helping to monitor the world's oceans

  • Climate

    Weather satellites play a big role in monitoring climate change - find out more...

Featured Posts

Global Ocean Colour - 2017
18 July 2018 With 0 Comments

This fascinating video, narrated by Hayley Evers-King (Marine Earth Observation Scientist at Plymouth Marine Lab) highlights a year of ocean ...

 

Sentinel-3B launch recap
18 July 2018 With 0 Comments

Remember the Sentinel-3B satellite launch? This fine piece of machinery has been up in orbit for more than two months now! It joined its twi ...

 

Year of Weather 2017
23 February 2018 With 0 Comments

On Monday 19 February we published our annual Year of Weather animation, showing all of the major weather events across the globe in 2017 as ...

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Meet our winners!
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Meet our winners!
21 November 2018 With 0 Comments

Back in June we began our "Clean-up your space" contest and since then, we have received many fantastic entries - in fact we were overwhelme ...

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Space, as seen by you
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Space, as seen by you
24 August 2018 With 0 Comments

We've had lots of space-related captures sent in to us lately and there have been some amazing results - what a talented bunch you are! ...

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Copernicus: Europe's eyes on Earth
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Copernicus: Europe's eyes on Earth
9 August 2018 With 0 Comments

You might have heard us mention Copernicus before - not only on the Learning Zone, but regularly on our social media posts. However, in case ...

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Space is putting on a spectacular show – and you’re all invited to watch
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Space is putting on a spectacular show – and you’re all invited to watch
26 July 2018 With 0 Comments

Grab your telescopes, cameras, friends and family and get ready to witness two VERY exciting displays of space action in the next month! ...

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