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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
PROBA-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
New Swarm plasma density and plasma irregularity dataset released
A new Swarm Level 2 data product was released on 20 February 2019. It contains several time series that characterise the plasma density and plasma irregularity along the Swarm orbits, separately calculated for each of the three satellites.
News - Data Release news
PROBA-V 2018-2019 Antarctica data now available
For the second consecutive austral summer season, PROBA-V observed Antarctica and its ongoing changes.
News - Operational News
PROBA-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 - Infographics
PROBA-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
New experimental phase for PROBA-V
PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.
News - Success Stories
1 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 - Infographics
Swarm - ESA's magnetic field satellite mission
Learn more about ESA's Swarm mission, an Earth Explorer dedicated to studying Earth's magnetic field, in our latest infographic.
News - General News
PROBA-V, ready to close its green eyes
While the operational lifetime of the global PROBA-V mission already ended on 30 June 2020 after more than 7 years in orbit, its vegetation instrument remained capturing the European and African land mass in experimental mode ever since.
News - Success Stories
Long-live PROBA-V
After eight years in space, the PROBA-V satellite ended its vegetation mission last 31 October, having gone well beyond expectations for global vegetation monitoring.
News - Success Stories
Ship trails in the Bay of Biscay observed using PROBA-V imagery
Ship trails have been perceived as convincing evidence of aerosol-cloud interaction. Ship emissions have been proven to contribute by about 1.9% and 2.9% to the increase in the global total and fine-mode aerosol optical thickness (AOT) respectively over a five year period (Peters et al. 20212).
News - Operational News
Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data missing from 7 November 2021
As a follow-up of the news published on 23 November 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the missing Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data since 7 November 2021.
News - Success Stories
Swarm’s orbital dance: counter-rotating and closer, for the benefit of science
Since variations in Earth’s magnetic field directly reflect the flow of fluid in the outermost core, new information from Swarm will further our understanding of the physics and dynamics of Earth's stormy heart—and the satellites are recently flying in a counter-rotating phase and closer in their separation, to enable scientists to discover new elements.
News - Spotlight on EO community
Meet ESA's Swarm Mission Manager
Anja Strømme, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager, describes in detail the wonders of the Swarm mission.
News - Data Release news
New Swarm Langmuir probe Ion Drift, density and effective Mass (SLIDEM) dataset released
A new dataset of Swarm Langmuir probe Ion Drift, density and effective Mass (SLIDEM) at 2 Hz cadence is now available for the three Swarm spacecraft on the Swarm dissemination server.
News - General News
New Release of VirES for Swarm 3.8.0
The new version of VirES implements the Heliophysics API which means that selected datasets are now accessible via the Heliophysics Application Programming Interface (HAPI).
News - General News
New paper “Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements” published
The paper “Swarm Langmuir probes' data quality validation and future improvements” by F. Catapano et al. has been published in the Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) journal in March 2022.
News - Operational News
Changes to be introduced in the Swarm Dissemination FTP layout
Following a Swarm community recommendation, some changes will be introduced in the Swarm Dissemination FTP/HTTPS structure on 20 April 2022.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
Over 95% of Earth’s water is found in our oceans, and yet sadly, oceans are under stress from climate change and pollution. Monitoring our oceans is vital for Earth’s survival and satellites are the primary means of long-term and independent observation of our vast ocean bodies and their associated coastal zones.
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 3 May 2022 - Potential impact on data quality
After more than eight years of operations, the Swarm constellation is continuing to provide multi-point measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field and ionospheric parameters with unprecedented accuracy.