Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground.
MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 Liftoff
Two meteorological missions, Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on July 1, 2025.
Bolivian Forest: Comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass
ESA revealed the first images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission, marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle.
NASA’s TRACERS Mission
The mission is a pair of satellites that will study how the solar wind—the continuous stream of ionized particles escaping the Sun and pouring out into space—interacts with and enters Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around Earth dominated by our planet’s magnetic field.
Sulphur Dioxide From Mount Etna Eruption
The Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission captured sulphur dioxide emissions from Mount Etna’s eruption on June 2, 2025.
Mount Etna Erupts
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on June 2, 2025, when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe’s largest active volcano.
NASA-French Satellite Spots Large-Scale River Waves for First Time
In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers.
Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us this cloud-free view of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1
Thanks largely to the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists have discovered that the fast-flowing Kohler East glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from a neighboring flow at a pace never before seen.
Night-Time Light Emissions During Blackout in Spain and Portugal
As the night closed in on Spain and Portugal on April 28, 2025, polar satellites followed the blackout that lasted well into the early hours of the morning in several regions.
