Due to a planned software maintenance, the data dissemination server PFD-NS-UP at the UK-PAC processing centre will be down from 9:30 to 13:30 CET on Thursday 06 March 2014.

Due to a planned software installation, the MERCI web interface hosting the Envisat MERIS Full Resolution (FRS) data will be unavailable from 14:00 to 19:00 CET on Monday 3 March 2014.

Nominal service will resume as soon as the maintenance has been completed.

Due to a planned software installation, the MERCI web interface hosting Envisat MERIS Reduced Resolution (RR) data (server 'mer-merci-uk.eo.esa.int') will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours from 1pm CET on Wednesday 26 February 2014.

Nominal service will resume as soon as the maintenance has been completed.

Building on its use of satellites for responding to disasters, ESA has helped to create a service that makes flood maps available simply via the Internet.

The amount of sunlight being absorbed or reflected by Earth is one of the driving forces for weather and climate. Satellites are providing this information with unprecedented accuracy.

If you are a university student from Poland, Czech Republic or Romania and you would like to be on the space scene when the first Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite starts monitoring the Earth next year, apply for the new ESA 'Sentinel-1 Student Transponders' project.

Ten years of satellite observations of greenhouse gases reveal that carbon dioxide in our atmosphere continues to increase despite international efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Satellites also show that recent methane increases are likely due to manmade emissions.

About 1700 participants of the Living Planet Symposium are expected in the Scottish capital on 9-13 September. To date, over 1100 people have already registered for ESA's largest scientific event of the year, and the number is growing.