General
Satellites
Weather
Organisation
Meteosat
Sentinel
Image of the week
MTG
Africa
Year of Weather
2024
Lightning activity from the 6 to the 8 July 2024.
This week’s image of the week is of Africa as seen from the vantage point of our Meteosat-11 geostationary weather satellite 36,000km above our planet.
The bloom is most likely caused by coccolithophores (cyan colour) and other phytoplankton species. Phytoplankton play a key role in marine ecosystems as the basis of the food chain.
This week’s image of the week shows a large phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea, off the west coast of Scotland.
This week’s image of the week is of the Galápagos Islands.
This week’s image of the week is of the southern Caspian Sea and was captured by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites on 7 September 2024.
This week’s image of the week shows colourful phytoplankton off the coast of Argentina.
This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of geostationary weather satellites 36,000km above our planet.
Many fires have been affecting Brazil’s northern most state, Roraima.
This week’s image of the week is of the many fires that are affecting the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
This week’s image of the week is of the recent volcanic eruption from the Sundhnúkur crater row, in Iceland.
Earth as seen from the vantage point of geostationary weather satellites 36,000km above our planet.