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🌊 The Lagoon of Grado 🇮🇹, a 90 km² protected coastal wetland, is a mosaic of shallow waters, salt marshes, islands & tidal channels.
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 image reveals its intricate patterns and changing water depths.
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🌀 Hurricane Polo 🇲🇽 rapidly intensified to Category 5 in just one day, reaching winds of 290 km/h.
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 #ImageOfTheDay from 23 Sept shows its well-defined eye and spiral cloud bands approaching Mexico’s Pacific coast.
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🌊 What looks like an abstract painting is microscopic life in the Baltic Sea!
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 reveals algal blooms in the Gulf of Riga 🇱🇻🇪🇪 using ocean-colour data. Sentinel-3C now joins the mission.
🔗 link.europa.eu/g4TkqT
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🚢 Happy World Maritime Day! ⚓
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1 multitemporal #ImageOfTheDay captures vessel activity around Piraeus & Elefsina in the Saronic Gulf 🇬🇷
🌊 Radar data support monitoring, even through clouds.
🔗 link.europa.eu/QmqKtm
@CopernicusCMS @EU_MARE
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🌊🛰️ #CopernicusEU & @CMEMS_EU is at the heart of #OceanEye, building on global coverage & nearly half of the world’s ocean observations. The ocean connects us. So should the way we observe it.
🔗 link.europa.eu/7Fjhfy
The ocean doesn’t stop at borders. Neither should ocean observation. Sharing science and knowledge globally helps us better understand our ocean. Under the EU and Canada leadership, the OceanEye International Alliance for the Global Ocean Observing System join forces.
#UNGA81
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Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 is facing severe drought, with extreme drought affecting 37% of the island on 15 Sept.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay shows the Lajas Valley shifting from green in Sept 2025 to brown in Sept 2026.
🔗 link.europa.eu/4Y8fqJ
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🛰️ #CopernicusEU is an essential foundation of #OceanEye. 🌊
Stay tuned to see how the International Alliance for the Global Ocean Observing System takes shape at #UNGA, with @vonderleyen 🇪🇺 & @MarkJCarney 🇨🇦.
On 23 September. A major moment for global ocean observation is coming at #UNGA.
The OceanEye International Alliance for the Global Ocean Observing System will take shape, with new commitments to strengthen global ocean observation.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1i/k1…
🕙16:00 – 17:30 CEST
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💧 The Żywiec Reservoir 🇵🇱 is showing the effects of prolonged dry conditions.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 images from Sept 2025 & 2026 reveal a marked reduction in surface water, with large areas of the reservoir bed exposed.
🔗 link.europa.eu/NVnN8Y
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🌧️ Guatemala’s Dry Corridor 🇬🇹 is facing drought conditions in 2026, with rainfall ~33% below average.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 imagery reveals the contrast in the Motagua Valley between September 2025 & 2026.
🔗 link.europa.eu/nKK4bp
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🌍🛰️ Sentinel-3C is ready to expand Europe’s watch over our changing planet!
🌊 #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 data reveal cooler waters caused by Meltemi-driven upwelling in the Aegean Sea.
🚀 Discover the mission: link.europa.eu/g4TkqT
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The Flinders Ranges 🇦🇺 reveal a landscape of folded ridges, valleys & exposed rock.
🛰️ This false-colour #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay (31 Aug), highlights the region’s geological structures and contrasts in rock, soil & sparse vegetation.
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🧑🌾 A distinctive, leaf-shaped agricultural landscape in León 🇪🇸
🛰️ This multitemporal #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay combines observations from May, Jun & Jul 2026, revealing seasonal changes across irrigated fields.
🔗 link.europa.eu/kKxJNv
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🏔️ Snow cover across Chile’s Coquimbo Region 🇨🇱 was twice its usual extent in August 2026, exceeding 10,000 km².
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 #ImageOfTheDay from 21 August shows extensive snow along the Andes.
🔗 link.europa.eu/m9yQvg
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A true #EUSpace success story! From an idea by 2 young Europeans to a global space leader.
@iceye_global, a #CopernicusEU Contributing Mission, providing 🛰️ data to sea monitoring, maritime surveillance & assess flood impacts.
🇪🇺 innovation at work.
🔗 link.europa.eu/xRM4FD
Europe is the home of innovation.
And can re-ignite Europe’s entrepreneurial spirit.
With European funding.
They allow European success stories like ICEYE to emerge ↓
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🗻 Hardangerjøkulen 🇳🇴, Norway’s 6th-largest glacier, is rapidly retreating due to climate change.
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 image from 25 August 2026 shows exposed old ice and glacier structures after the summer snow melted.
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🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3C is joining the constellation to monitor chaniging 🌍 including weather extremes.
🌡️ Sentinel-3 observations revealed land-surface temperature changes during June’s heatwave in Paris.
🔗 Learn more about our new satellite: link.europa.eu/g4TkqT
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🌍 La mission #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 recueillit des informations qui peuvent aider à mieux faire face aux vagues de chaleur et aux feux de forêt.
🛰️ Avec Sentinel-3C qui rejoint la mission, l’Europe continue d’observer notre planète.
🔗link.europa.eu/g4TkqT
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🌍 Today is International Ozone Day! 🇦🇶
🛰️ CAMS monitors the Antarctic ozone hole, which reached ~25 million km² on 12 Sept 2026 - ~5 million km² above average.
🔗 link.europa.eu/p688gq
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🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3C is in orbit! 🚀
Its instruments will monitor:
🔹 land, vegetation & water quality
🔹 surface temperature
🔹 sea level
🌍 They track oceans, climate, ecosystems & natural hazards - the changing environment.
🔗 Learn more: link.europa.eu/3ymhq8
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🛰️ Sentinel-3C called home! 📡
It has separated from the launcher at 825+ km. Telemetry signal received & solar panel deployed.
🎉 Congratulations to all involved!
🔗 link.europa.eu/cg9kNd
#EUSpace @EU_Commission @defis_eu @esa @eumetsat @Thales_Alenia_S @Avio_Group @EU4Space
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