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Watching the

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Monitoring

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Keeping

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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
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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 o ...

 

Sentinel-3B launch recap
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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 ...

 

Year of Weather 2017
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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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COVID-19 and its impact on our environment
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COVID-19 and its impact on our environment
5 June 2020 With 0 Comments

Have you noticed that many of our conversations nowadays focus on the huge impact that the ongoing pandemic has been having on our lives? Fr ...

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2019 in photos: wrapping up the year
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2019 in photos: wrapping up the year
30 December 2019 With 0 Comments

Today, we look back at some of the weather events that took place in 2019 with a round-up of the most impressive satellite images we gathere ...

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The great weather satellite bake off 2019
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The great weather satellite bake off 2019
23 December 2019 With 0 Comments

While some of you might have been busy building amazing space themed parkours for our 2019 Fortnite Competition, some other people got their ...

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Visiting Sentinel-6 in the clean room
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Visiting Sentinel-6 in the clean room
15 November 2019 With 0 Comments

Today we got a last glimpse of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 satellite by visiting the clean room at IABG in Ottobrun, Germany. Sentinel- ...

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