The second satellite to join the constellation that forms the European Data Relay System (EDRS) was successfully launched on Aug. 6, 2019, onboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

In late July 2019, a major melting event spread across the Greenland Ice Sheet. Billions of tons of meltwater streamed into the Atlantic Ocean throughout the month, making a direct and immediate contribution to sea-level rise.

Hundreds of wildfires have broken out in Siberia, some of which can be seen in this image captured from space on July 28, 2019.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island Borneo.

Celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11 blasted off with the first humans that would walk on the Moon, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captures the historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Damage from two strong earthquakes that rattled Southern California on July 4 and July 5”magnitude 6.4 and 7.1, respectively”can be seen from space.

With some places recording air temperatures of more than 40°C (104°F), much of Europe is in the grip of a heatwave that set record highs for June.

On the morning of June 22, 2019, astronauts shot this photograph of the volcanic plume rising in a narrow column and then spreading out in a part of the plume known as the umbrella region.

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, this image shows the edge of the dry desert in west Africa contrasted with vegetated land.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission collected this false-color image of Lake Valencia in northern Venezuela.