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Observing wildfire smoke plumes from space

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Recent wildfires in Chile had a devastating impact on the country, its people and the environment.

Grandaddy of meteorological satellites gets a celestial send-off

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Meteosat-7 will soon be retired to a graveyard orbit after almost 20 years of service and several celestial bodies have taken the opportunity to make the send-off memorable.

The 2nd generation Meteosat-8 satellite takes over Meteosat-7 over the Indian Ocean

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Following a decision of the EUMETSAT Council in June 2016, Meteosat-8 replaced Meteosat-7 as the EUMETSAT geostationary satellite observing the Indian Ocean today.

A year of polar ice

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Analysing how Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent changed during the year.

Monitoring the Oceans from Space MOOC – impressions from students

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EUMETSAT recently offered a five week free online course to anyone interested in learning more about how satellites monitor the oceans from space.

Top 10 satellite images of 2016

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Here’s a list of our most impressive images and composites of this past year to transition into 2017.

EUMETSAT and the Copernicus Programme

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New video explains EUMETSAT’s role in the Copernicus Programme.

Operational Marine surface analysis using EUMETSAT'S Copernicus Marine Data Stream - Pretoria

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Developing skills in using data from EUMETSAT's Copernicus Marine Data Stream for marine surface analysis.

The EUMETSAT Council agreed that the ageing, but still healthy, Metop-A satellite will be exploited on a “drifting” orbit from June 2017 onwards, in order to extend its useful lifetime from 2019 to 2022.

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The EUMETSAT Council agreed that the ageing, but still healthy, Metop-A satellite will be exploited on a “drifting” orbit from June 2017 onwards, in order to extend its useful lifetime from 2019 to 2022.