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This is one of the final images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite on 31 December 2021 and shows Ireland and a part of Scotland. Sentinel-1 data has been overlaid onto a Sentinel-2 cloudless composite.
In 2021, Sentinel-1B suffered a failure in the platform unit that powered the Synthetic Aperture Radar, causing the payload to become inoperative. After multiple attempts to recover the spacecraft, the mission was declared ended on 3 August 2022.
Read full story: Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth