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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.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Proba-1 sets new record
Originally designed as a two-year mission and launched 22 October 2001, Proba-1 is still going strong, providing valuable hyper-spectral data.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm details energetic coupling
ESA's Swarm mission reveals the nature of the Earth–Sun coupling in more detail than ever before.
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News - General News
News - General News
Getting to know Steve
Steve – a strange shimmering ribbon of purple light was discovered in 2016. Thanks to Swarm, more is known about this feature of the aurora.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm trio becomes a quartet
ESA and Canada in deal to turn Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed more light on space weather and features such as the aurora borealis.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Magnetic lithosphere detailed
Detailed map of the tiny magnetic signals generated by Earth's lithosphere is being used to understand more about Earth's geological history.
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News - General News
News - General News
Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk
Bangladesh government proposing a vulnerable low-lying island as a relocation site for thousands, Sentinel-1 data shows site unsuitable.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
ESA's unexpected fleet of space weather monitors
Researchers utilised data from Swarm and GOCE missions, and LISA Pathfinder to investigate if it could be used for space weather diagnostics.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Satellite Radar Altimetry: past and future
Satellite radar altimetry measurements yield a wealth of information that can be used for a wide range of applications.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Greenland ice loss quickening
Using a 25-year record of ESA satellite data, recent research shows that the pace at which Greenland is losing ice is getting faster.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Envisat-ERS (A)SAR - Enhanced Dissemination Service
ESA is pleased to announce the release of several new features as part of the ESA On-The-Fly data processing and dissemination service.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones
The magnetic north is constantly on the move – so much so the World Magnetic Model has had to be updated urgently with the pole's new location.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CASSIOPE/e-POP full data mirror on the ESA Swarm Dissemination Server
Swarm Dissemination Server hosting a mirror of the CASSIOPE/e-POP full data archive in native format. Products are freely available.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha and Charlie: STR instruments set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018
The attitude information of the Swarm Star Tracker (STR) instruments are set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018, instead of the previous 1 Hz.
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News - General News
News - General News
Swarm helps explain Earth's magnetic jerks
Since geomagnetic jerks were discovered in 1978 scientists have been trying to work out why the magnetic field unexpectedly accelerates.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Charlie: data gaps from 28 April 2019
An onboard anomaly occurred on Swarm Charlie that has caused data gaps on all L0, L1A and L1B data products from 28 April 2019 onwards.
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News - Operational News, Scientific Highlights
News - Operational News, Scientific Highlights
Significant improvements on Swarm Thermal Ion Imagers data
Constant improvement in the strategies to operate the TII sensors on-board each Swarm spacecraft allow increase in data coverage and quality.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
ESA'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.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Tug-of-war drives magnetic north sprint
Earth's magnetic north has always wandered, but it has recently gained momentum at a pace not seen before.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
A quarter of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now unstable
Scientists have discovered warming ocean waters have caused ice to thin so rapidly that 24% of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now affected.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Swarm Alpha: EFI data gap on 12 May 2019
An EFI/TII gain calibration map has been executed on 12 May 2019 onboard Swarm Alpha.