The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 22 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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This image, acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 9 February 2010, features a snow-flanked western Norway, located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in northern Europe. Norway, Europe's northernmost country, is famed for its fjords – long narrow arms of the sea that commonly extend far inland. Some of these are visible at the left edge of the land as dark lines between the white and snow-covered land.