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EarthCARE’s view of volcanic plume boosts air safety (opens the original)
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When Anak Krakatau erupted a few weeks ago, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite, orbiting above, captured vertical profiles of different constituents within the volcanic plume. Designed primarily to advance our understanding of how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s climate, here EarthCARE also provided valuable information to support safe air travel. At the same time, these observations offer new insights into the impact that volcanic eruptions have on the climate system. Anak Kr
Planck science highlights (opens the original)
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The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) preserves a picture of the Universe as it was about 380 000 years after the Big Bang, and can reveal the initial conditions for the evolution of the Universe. Planck’s main objective was to measure the fluctuations of the CMB with an accuracy set by fundamental astrophysical limits in order to chart the most accurate CMB maps yet. With instrument detectors so sensitive that they could distinguish temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree, the la
Colour map of Europe at night (opens the original)
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You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! Map created from thousands of images obtained from the International Space Station using digital cameras between 2014 and 2020. The insert shows a detail of Paris as example. The map was released in the paper Environmental risks from artificial nighttime lighting widespread and increasing across Europe. Researchers highlight how invasive night lights are and their negative effects for the environment. These images have been colour-cali
The Atacama Desert, Chile (opens the original)
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This Envisat image was acquired over northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth outside of the Antarctic dry valleys. Bounded on the west by the Pacific and on the east by the Andes, the Atacama Desert only knows rainfall between two and four times a century. The first sight of green in this Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image occurs some 200 kilometres west of the coast, at the foothills of the Western Cordillera, where wispy white clouds start to make an appear
ESA Impact 2026 - July-September (opens the original)
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Welcome to ESA Impact, your interactive gateway to the most captivating stories and stunning visuals from the European Space Agency, now in a mobile-friendly format. Just scroll down through it to see – and read about – our selection! This busy quarter saw ESA’s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites launch together aboard Vega-C, adding new capabilities to Europe’s Earth observation efforts. Copernicus satellites tracked the impact of wildfires across Europe. A total solar eclipse swept acr
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