Earth Observation News

"2023: Earth Observation, Festive Spectacular, Scientific Claims, and Climate Allies - A Year in Review"

The top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023 include the 25th anniversary of Copernicus, the detection of smelly seaweed from space, the counting of wildfires across the globe, record low ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland, the breaking free of an iceberg larger than London, the prediction of 2023 being the hottest year on record, the mapping of methane super-emitters using three Sentinel satellites, the observation of one of the biggest ozone holes on record, the end of the Aeolus wind mission, and the entry into a new era of satellite meteorology with the Meteosat Third Generation Imager.