The total sea ice coverage was tied with 2008 for the 10th-lowest on record at 1.78 million square miles (4.60 million square kilometers).

The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission between NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) approaches full science operations later this year. 

This composite shows the total lunar eclipse of Sept. 8, 2025, as seen from Concordia Station in Antarctica.

The animation shows the difference in the extent of Arctic permafrost in 1997 compared to 2021.

From tracking air pollution and greenhouse gases to forecasting extreme weather, the new European Metop-SG satellite, launched from Kuru, French Guyana, on Aug., 12, 2025, is a game-changer for our understanding of climate change. 

Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured wildfires burning in northern Portugal on July 30, 2025. 

Φsat-2, a miniature satellite, delivers science data using algorithms to efficiently process and compress Earth observation images as well as detect wildfires, ships, marine pollution and more.  

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. 

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.

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.