Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar images of Earth—offering a glimpse into its capabilities for environmental monitoring. These ...

“We are thrilled to see the Copernicus Sentinel-2C already capturing such breathtaking images of Earth so soon after its launch,” said Constantin Mavrocordatos, Sentinel-2 Project Manager at ESA.

Sentinel-3A’s very first image, captured at 14:09 GMT on 29 February, ... Offering new eyes on Earth, this improved instrument will allow ocean ecosystems to be monitored.

ESA deployed the first Sentinel satellite, Sentinel-1A, in 2014 to continuously create radar images of our planet's surface. Other satellites in the Copernicus program take high-resolution ...

A NASA tweet greeted the internet Wednesday with a beautiful image of the bluish gem-like Earth — the first image captured by the newest weather satellite orbiting the planet. GOES-18, short for ...

The vivid colors are down to the image processing via Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel, which helps to reveal different information than what you’d find in a natural-color image.

The idea is that the satellites are flown as pairs so that the revisit periods to locations on the Earth to take the next swath of images are kept as short as possible. Thus, a Sentinel-1b will be ...