🌾 Île-de-France 🇫🇷 is a productive farming region, with arable fields surrounding Paris.
🛰 This visualisation, based on CLMS crop data, shows a mosaic of wheat, maize, rapeseed & more around the capital.
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/agricultural-mosaic-paris-suburbs
🌾 Île-de-France 🇫🇷 is a productive farming region, with arable fields surrounding Paris.
🛰 This visualisation, based on CLMS ...
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Artemis II Crew Trains on T-38
NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on Feb. 11, 2026, as a waning crescent Moon hovers above.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2026e007422/
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay #Space
🌍 Saharan dust from a Calima has spread across the Atlantic since mid-Feb 2026, affecting air quality in Cabo Verde, the Canary Islands & Madeira.
🛰 CAMS data (17 Feb) shows a vast dust plume moving NW toward Europe.
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/saharan-dust-plume-over-atlantic-ocean
🌍 Saharan dust from a Calima has spread across the Atlantic since mid-Feb 2026, affecting air quality in Cabo V...
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After persistent 🌧 in Feb 2026, high flows were recorded along the Ebro River 🇪🇸.
Zaragoza activated its Emergency Plan as a precaution.
🛰️ A Sentinel-2 image (16 Feb) shows flooded areas in blue upstream of the city. #CopernicusEU #ImageOfTheDay
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/floods-along-ebro-river-aragon-spain
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Crystals Grown in Space
This image of lysozyme crystals grown aboard the International Space Station was taken after the crystals returned to Earth in April 2024. Lysozyme is a protein found in bodily fluids like tears, saliva, and milk. It is used as a control compound to demonstrate well-formed crystals.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e038397-2/
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay #Space
🌋 Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion Island 🇷🇪🇨🇵 erupted on 13 Feb, its 2nd eruption this year.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-5P detected a sulfur dioxide plume stretching over 550 km toward Madagascar.
🌋 Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion Island 🇷🇪🇨🇵 erupted on 13 Feb, its 2nd eruption this year.
🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-5P...
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Stormy, Snowy Winter for Hokkaido
Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido, is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world. Sapporo, the island's largest city and host of an annual snow festival, typically sees more than 140 days of snowfall, with nearly 6 meters (20 feet) accumulating on average each year.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/japansnow-tmo-20260205-lrg/
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay #Space
🌧️ Successive Atlantic low-pressure systems have brought prolonged heavy rainfall to France 🇫🇷
Storm Nils caused the Garonne River to overflow near Bordeaux.
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1 #ImageOfTheDay (13 Feb) shows flooded areas in red.
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/month-flood-alerts-france
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🧊 The Gulf of Riga, a shallow basin of the Baltic Sea between 🇱🇻 Latvia and 🇪🇪 Estonia, is highly sensitive to cold weather.
🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay shows the gulf largely ice-covered after prolonged sub-zero temperatures.
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/extensive-ice-cover-across-gulf-riga
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Hubble captures the fastest stellar jet ever seen from a young star - Earth.com
#hubblespacetelescope #stars #SpacePhotography #imageoftheday #protostars
https://www.earth.com/image/hubble-captures-the-fastest-stellar-jet-ever-seen-from-a-young-star/
Stellar nursery emerges from the darkness with a red glow - Earth.com
#SpacePhotography #EuropeanSpaceAgency #imageoftheday #photography #galaxies #space #constellations
https://www.earth.com/image/stellar-nursery-emerges-from-the-darkness-with-a-red-glow/
Young stars reshape their birthplace in a nearby galaxy - Earth.com
Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a busy corner of a nearby galaxy, where stars are still being born inside thick, restless clouds of gas...
#EuropeanSpaceAgency #imageoftheday #galaxies #space #SpacePhotography #photography #spaceimages #stars
https://www.earth.com/image/young-stars-reshape-their-birthplace-in-a-nearby-galaxy/
☃️ Historic snowfall on Mount Teide! After Storm Emilia, up to 1.5 m of snow covered 🇪🇸 Spain’s highest peak - the heaviest since 2016. 🛰️ This #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay (15 Dec) helps track snow extent, safety conditions & impacts. www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...
Stars are born at a furious pace in this bright stellar nursery - Earth.com #stars #milkyway #galaxy #imageoftheday #photography #JWST #universe #EuropeanSpaceAgency
https://www.earth.com/image/webb-reveals-the-brightest-stellar-nursery-in-our-galaxy/
The Arch of Trajan in Makthar, Tunisia, is a Roman triumphal arch erected in 116 AD in honor of Emperor Trajan. It commemorates the granting of Roman citizenship to a portion of the local elite of the city of Mactaris (present-day #Makthar), as well as the construction of a new neighborhood at the beginning of the 2nd century.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:afwkeqs32zt6n6sykro5ayyy/post/3m6bxzpnyqq22
#ImageOfTheDay #Makthar #Heritage #Legacy #Roman #Tunisia #Tunisie #Photo #Photography #Photographie
Hubble reveals the strange afterlife of a zombie star - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/image/hubble-reveals-the-strange-afterlife-of-a-zombie-star/
#imageoftheday #hubble #EuropeanSpaceAgency #space #photography #SpacePhotography #eridanus
Antarctic sea ice hits one of its lowest winter peaks on record - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/image/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-one-of-its-lowest-winter-peaks-on-record/
#antarctica #polarregions #seaice #nasa #photography #imageoftheday
https://www.earth.com/image/spiral-galaxy-in-the-great-bear-hides-a-monster-within/
Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features the spiral galaxy NGC 4102. This bright spiral of gas, dust, and stars is located about 56 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear...
#galaxy #EuropeanSpaceAgency #ursamajor #universe #imageoftheday #photography #greatbear #stars
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👁️ The eye of the storm.
🌀 On 28 Oct, Hurricane Melissa - the strongest in 🇯🇲 Jamaica’s history - made landfall with winds up to 298 km/h and pressure of 892 hPa.
🛰 The eye was captured by #CopernicusEU #Sentinel2.
🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/sentinel-2-captures-vivid-view-hurricane-melissas-eye
#ImageOfTheDay
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU/status/1983496803329667278
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Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a pair of interacting spiral galaxies known as the Antennae Galaxies...
#ESA #galaxy #antennaegalaxies #space #universe #imageoftheday #photography #milkyway
https://www.earth.com/image/the-violent-clash-of-the-antennae-galaxies/
