ESA - Envisat - Archive

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The mission

Envisat was the largest Earth observation spacecraft ever built. The mission delivered thousands of images and a wealth of data used to study the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change. The end of the mission was declared on 9 May 2012, but ten years of Envisat’s archived data continue to be exploited for studying our planet.

The launch

Date: 01 March 2002
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Rocket: Ariane 5

8-tonne satellite
10 instruments
10 yrs in orbit

Envisat

Chaiten Volcano blasting ash

Chilean volcano captured blasting ash

08/05/2008 1866 views 1 likes

Cyclone Nargis seen by Envisat

Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space

07/05/2008 3197 views 2 likes

Air pollution

Envisat makes first ever observation of regionally elevated…

18/03/2008 3077 views 7 likes

New portrait of Earth shows land cover as never before

17/03/2008 21487 views 7 likes

Splitting iceberg captured by Envisat

Earth from Space: Splitting iceberg

14/03/2008 2819 views 0 likes

Surface velocity of the Agulhas Current

New radar satellite technique sheds light on ocean current …

24/01/2008 2812 views 0 likes

South Korea's crude oil leak captured by Envisat

Envisat captures South Korea’s crude oil leak

11/12/2007 2071 views 3 likes

Tropical Storm Noel captured by Envisat

Tropical Storm Noel

29/10/2007 3281 views 1 likes

California ablaze

Envisat captures California ablaze

23/10/2007 2619 views 1 likes

California's raging wildfires

California's raging wildfires

22/10/2007 618 views 1 likes

Air pollution

Space sensors shed new light on air quality

22/10/2007 2284 views 1 likes

Ozone hole comparison 2006-2007

2007 ozone hole ‘smaller than usual’

03/10/2007 4875 views 0 likes

Damage mapping product

Greeks get space-based help in wake of deadly fires

21/09/2007 1976 views 0 likes

2007 Envisat mosaic of Arctic Ocean

Satellites witness lowest Arctic ice coverage in history

14/09/2007 9710 views 22 likes

Greece suffers more fires in 2007 than in last decade, sate…

29/08/2007 2468 views 3 likes

Hot spots across Southeastern Europe

European hot spots and fires identified from space

27/08/2007 7881 views 9 likes

Dean approaching Yucatan Peninsula

Hurricane Dean tracked from space

21/08/2007 2178 views 0 likes

Fires burning across Tenerife today

Fires on Canary Islands force thousands to flee

31/07/2007 1653 views 0 likes

Radar image of UK floods

Floods and fires across Europe captured from space

27/07/2007 1620 views 2 likes

Soil moisture values in 2005-2006

Extreme weather monitoring boosted by space sensor

16/07/2007 1052 views 0 likes

Envisat sees Mount Gamkonora volcano

ESA’s Envisat captures breath of volcano

11/07/2007 1577 views 1 likes

Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space

06/06/2007 11497 views 9 likes

Tracking waves across the Indian Ocean

Huge waves from one storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart

30/05/2007 3899 views 3 likes

Swell propagating across the Indian Ocean

Huge waves that hit Reunion Island tracked from space

16/05/2007 2757 views 3 likes

GlobCover composite for May to June 2005

ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth

11/05/2007 9069 views 13 likes

Transcontinental wildfire emissions monitored from space

08/05/2007 1073 views 0 likes

Sea ice in Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada

Satellites shed light on global warming

27/04/2007 2227 views 2 likes

Envisat Symposium 2007

27/04/2007 646 views 1 likes

Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle

25/04/2007 2013 views 2 likes

Envisat Symposium 2007 kicks off in Switzerland

23/04/2007 1037 views 0 likes

Carbon dioxide mapped from 2003-2005

Scientists meet to review Envisat results after 5 years of …

11/04/2007 868 views 0 likes

ESA satellite images can help IPY expeditions in the Arctic…

30/03/2007 968 views 0 likes

First ever animation of global methane distribution

First greenhouse gas animations produced using Envisat SCIA…

20/03/2007 3608 views 3 likes

Envisat captures Cyclone Gamede on 23 February 2007

Envisat still going strong after five successful years

28/02/2007 1293 views 0 likes

NO2 pollution map as measured by Envisat

Scientists gear up for ESA’s 2007 Envisat Symposium

22/02/2007 1447 views 0 likes

Envisat image over the Red Sea

ESA celebrates 15 years of near-real time data delivery in …

16/02/2007 1495 views 0 likes

Explore planet Earth in near-real time

05/12/2006 35518 views 95 likes

Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain

ESA and JAXA satellites ‘talk’ to each other

01/12/2006 1780 views 0 likes

ESA images in Google Earth

European Space Agency and Google Earth showcase our planet

16/11/2006 17808 views 113 likes

2006 ozone hole

Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole

02/10/2006 2947 views 1 likes

Svalbard area as seen by Envisat

Arctic summer ice anomaly shocks scientists

19/09/2006 4634 views 2 likes

Switzerland as seen by Envisat

Envisat Symposium 2007 highlightsEO satellite achievements

18/09/2006 8640 views 32 likes

Gulf of Naples as seen by Envisat

Renewed volcanic activity at the Phlegrean Fields tracked b…

21/08/2006 2258 views 0 likes

The ship Vædderen

Danish expedition ship tracked by Envisat satellite

11/08/2006 1522 views 1 likes

Aerial view of cracks formed in September 2005

ESA’s Envisat satellite witnesses Earth’s largest crack

20/07/2006 14520 views 21 likes

Four years on, Envisat hailed for its contribution to Earth…

28/02/2006 5238 views 9 likes

Pollution hunting in the light and shadows

13/01/2006 704 views 0 likes

Envisat showing Typhoon Kirogi beneath Japan

ESA's new Earth Images Gallery: Typhoon Kirogi makes stormy…

21/10/2005 783 views 0 likes

Measuring European photosynthesis levels with MERIS

MERIS monitoring tracks planetary photosynthesis levels

23/09/2005 888 views 0 likes

Correlative sounding

A TASTE of Envisat atmospheric chemistry

30/06/2005 519 views 0 likes

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