Buongiorno Venezia!
This Copernicus EU #Sentinel2 image features the city of Venice in Italy.

The small square island to the north is San Michele. Once a prison island, it became a cemetery when Napoleon’s occupying forces declared burial on the main islands unsanitary.

What should ESA Operations teams do if a member of the control team suddenly falls ill during the #EarthCARE launch?

What if communication with the spacecraft is interrupted at a crucial moment?

How should they react to an alert from ESA’s Space Debris Office warning of a…

We have some exciting news to share with you:
we opened the Beta Testing phase for the European Commission #DestinE System.This early version of the DestinE platform will remain open until 17 May 2024 for interested users to test the discovery, access, and basic usage of DestinE…

Despite current Int’l Telecommunication Union rules on use of the electromagnetic spectrum, satellites sometimes suffer from interference – radio frequency interference, or RFI. This can mean loss of data, risk of damage to the satellite receiver and biased or uncertain measurements.

The animation…

Boosting your Monday with new images from the #EarthCARE launch site!

Over the weekend the propulsion team setup and carried out thruster tests and pressurisation tests.
Soon teams will start the joint operations, aka the activities needed to integrate the satellite with the…

On the occasion of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, European Space Agency organises a side event in collaboration with the Geneva digital health hub (@gdhub_gva)
and various partners, including UN agencies such as
UNOOSA and World Health Organization (WHO) For more information, visit eo4society.esa.int/2024/04/30/spa……
ESA Earth Observation

Here's a collection of images from space to brighten your Sunday
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To celebrate #MayThe4th let's travel to some of the most iconic movie locations... from space!

Which one is your favourite?
Mount Etna = Mustafar
Salar de Uyuni = Battle of crait
Iceland = icy planet Hoth
Rub’ al Khali Desert = Jakku

With the climate crisis tightening its grip, European Space Agency’s #EarthCARE will shed new light on the complex interactions between clouds, aerosols and radiation in Earth’s atmosphere.
We caught up with some of the scientists, engineers and experts behind the mission: youtube.com/watch?v=hH8CGY…

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
Said the #EarthCARE team to dust and aerosols that tried to get inside the satellite waiting for liftoff in California.
Thanks to the team’s painstaking work, they verified that EarthCARE is dust-free.
Next task on the list: fuelling!
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One satellite image and so many interesting spots!

⛰️One of the highest point in Namibia (Brandberg Massif)
🌋The ring-shaped Messum Crater, part of a collapsed volcano
☄️The Doros Crater, formed by a meteor impact event

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Reliving the science-filled life of ESA's Aeolus mission satellite thanks to the power of sonification!
Last year we teamed up with composer Jamie Perera to make an orchestral wind sonification that uses data spanning the mission’s entirety: soundcloud.com/esa/the-sound-…

Household duties for the #EarthCARE team in California!

The team has been busy prepping European Space Agency's next Earth Explorer satellite for launch - one of the activity includes carefully cleaning the spacecraft 🧹🛰️

In order to properly assess the cleanliness, the lights in the…

This image of the North Frisian Islands looks like it was painted with watercolours!

Sylt is the largest island of the archipelago. A sandy beach stretches across the west coast, however it has begun to erode owing to storm tides.

Sylt is connected to the mainland by the…

How will European Space Agency's #EarthCARE shed light on clouds' role in Earth's radiation budget?

EarthCARE has 4⃣ state-of-the-art instruments, each designed to provide unique insights into the complex interactions between clouds, aerosols and radiation:
esa.int/Applications/O…

These images were too good not to share them again!

When a total solar eclipse swept across North America earlier in April, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16), captured the moon’s shadow moving across North America 😍

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Have you ever heard of European Space Agency's World Fire Atlas?
The dashboard uses night-time data from Copernicus EU #Sentinel3 radiometer.

The sensor measures thermal infrared radiation to take the 🌡️ of Earth's land which is used to detect 🔥: s3wfa.esa.int