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Last Seen Profiles
One satellite image and so many interesting spots!
⛰️One of the highest point in Namibia (Brandberg Massif)
🌋The ring-shaped Messum Crater, part of a collapsed volcano
☄️The Doros Crater, formed by a meteor impact event
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Reliving the science-filled life of
@esa_aeolus
satellite thanks to the power of sonification!
Last year we teamed up with composer Jamie Perera to make an orchestral wind sonification that uses data spanning the mission’s entirety:
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Household duties for the
#EarthCARE
team in California!
The team has been busy prepping
@esa
's next Earth Explorer satellite for launch - one of the activity includes carefully cleaning the spacecraft 🧹🛰️
In order to properly assess the cleanliness, the lights in the…
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This image of the North Frisian Islands looks like it was painted with watercolours!
Sylt is the largest island of the archipelago. A sandy beach stretches across the west coast, however it has begun to erode owing to storm tides.
Sylt is connected to the mainland by the…
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How will
@esa
's
#EarthCARE
shed light on clouds' role in Earth's radiation budget?
EarthCARE has 4⃣ state-of-the-art instruments, each designed to provide unique insights into the complex interactions between clouds, aerosols and radiation:
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These images were too good not to share them again!
When a total solar eclipse swept across North America earlier in April, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16), captured the moon’s shadow moving across North America 😍
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Have you ever heard of
@esa
's World Fire Atlas?
The dashboard uses night-time data from
@CopernicusEU
#Sentinel3
radiometer.
The sensor measures thermal infrared radiation to take the 🌡️ of Earth's land which is used to detect 🔥:
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Recent
@esa
-funded research shows that
@CopernicusEU
@Sentinel2
and the Italian Prisma mission can be used to nutritional content of crops.
Malnutrition from a lack of micronutrients affects more than 25% of the global population:
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When it comes to predicting what our climate will be like in the future, vegetation matters🌳💪
Read about
@esaclimate
new data release provides a consistent time series to meet modellers’ needs with two new features:
🍃Leaf Area Index
🌞Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically…
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ESA Earth Observation Retweeted
We are joining London sustainable couture fashion studio, Atelier Tammam at the
@sciencemuseum
on 9 May.
As part of our earth, science & fashion collaboration, the TAMMAM x ESA collection of sustainable garments and accessories printed with images from Earth from Space 🛰️ will…
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The scientific evidence of global climate change is irrefutable.
The consequences of a warming climate are far-reaching – affecting fresh water resources, global food production, sea level and triggering an increase in extreme-weather events. In order to tackle climate change,…
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Do you know your ABC?
Of course you do... but how about your
#EarthObservation
ABC😜
We put together a LONG glossary of all the words you might encounter while reading about remote sensing and climate.
From Chlorofluorocarbon to downwelling to hyper spectral: we have got you…
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ESA Earth Observation Retweeted
Did you miss the
#WorldCereal
webinar last week?
No worries! You can now access the recording and watch all presentations, including Q&A, via the
@ESA_WorldCereal
website 📹👉
@ESA_EO
@IIASAVienna
@Geo_Wiki
@WUR
@Gisat_cz
@VITO_RS_
@UV_EG
@G20_GEOGLAM
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Some cool facts about the upcoming
@esa
#EarthCARE
mission:
Orbit: Polar, dawn-dusk, Sun-synchronous with a descending node at 14:00, at altitude of 393 km inclined at 97 degrees, repeat cycle of 25 days
Satellite and instrument size:
Three-axis stabilised platform, 17.2 m…
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A week after, we are still reading the
#ESOTC
report from
@CopernicusECMWF
/
@WMO
:
data show that glaciers in all parts of Europe saw a net loss of ice in 2023.
In particular, glaciers in the Alps have lost around 10% of their volume.
More insights into the state of the…
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This March we began a gradual relocation of
@CopernicusEU
Contributing Missions collections to the data space ecosystem, with the aim of creating a central point of access.
We presented the activity at
@EuroGeosciences
- but if you weren't there or missed the session, here's a…
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In Vandenberg,
@esa
's
#EarthCARE
team continues to configure the satellite into its flight configuration. That's music to our ears!
Speaking of music - have you listened to EarthCARE's playlist? 🎧
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