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NEWS
Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Data Release news
5 Mar 2018PROBA-V data available over Antarctica
Due to a huge amount of interest, it was decided to acquire PROBA-V data over Antarctica from November 2017 to February 2018.
News - Data Release news
16 May 2018Eight years of SMOS Arctic sea ice thickness level now available from SMOS Data dissemination portal
Daily maps of sea ice thickness based on SMOS Observations, covering the winter seasons in the Arctic for the period of October-April from year 2010/2011 to year 2017/2018, are now available.
News - Data Release news
7 Mar 2019PROBA-V 2018-2019 Antarctica data now available
For the second consecutive austral summer season, PROBA-V observed Antarctica and its ongoing changes.
News - Success Stories
13 May 2019ESA's Earth Explorers surpassing expectations
In this video, learn how each Earth Explorer mission is contributing to Earth science, and changing the way we look at our beloved planet.
News - Success Stories
14 May 2019Mapping salty waters
The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically.
News - Operational News
15 May 2019PROBA-V global land cover maps released
Copernicus Global Land Service team have released their new set of global land cover layers for the year 2015.
News - Events and Proceedings
21 Oct 2019Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS - an event to mark the 10th anniversary of SMOS mission.
News - Data Release news
17 Apr 2020New SMOS sea surface wind speed products now available
The SMOS Wind Data Service provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of SMOS.
News - Infographics
21 Apr 2020PROBA-V - ESA's vegetation monitoring mission
ESA's vegetation-monitoring mission - Proba-V - will end operations in June 2020 after seven years.
News - Operational News
10 Aug 2020New experimental phase for PROBA-V
PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.
News - Infographics
3 Dec 2020Envisat - ESA's versatile Earth observation satellite
Learn more about ESA's Envisat mission - the largest Earth observation satellite ever built - in a new infographic.
News - Success Stories
15 Mar 20211 km resolution aerosol optical thickness retrieved from PROBA-V
The ESA SPAR@MEP project aims to deliver a long-term data record (LTDR) of aerosol optical properties and surface reflectance from SPOT-VGT and PROBA-V observations.
News - Success Stories
24 Mar 2021Water mission takes on space weather
Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.
News - Infographics
30 Mar 2021SMOS - ESA's soil moisture and ocean salinity mission
Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic.
News - Data Release news
28 May 2021SMOS level 1 and level 2 products new baseline is now available
New versions of the SMOS processors for level 1 and 2 were deployed in the operational ground segment on 25 May 2021.
News - Infographics
16 July 2021ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
News - Success Stories
19 July 2021ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science
At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - Data Release news
3 Aug 2021New SMOS Level 1 Near Real Time processing baseline released
A new version of the SMOS level 1 Near Real Time processor - version 724 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.
News - Data Release news
3 Aug 2021New SMOS Level 2 Near Real Time Neural Network Soil Moisture baseline is released
A new version of the SMOS level 2 Near Real Time processor - version 300 - was deployed in the operational ground segment on 2 August 2021.