While carbon dioxide is more abundant in the atmosphere and therefore more commonly associated with global warming, methane is around 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. Given its importance, Canadian company GHGSat have worked in collaboration with the Sentinel-5P team at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research to investigate hotspots of methane emissions during COVID-19.

An unscheduled service downtime occurred on 30 December 2019 from 09:00 to 13:45 UTC on the Copernicus Data Hubs.

Due to an issue at the Pick-up Point infrastructure level on 30 December, OLC, SLSTR and SRAL Near Real Time Copernicus Sentinel-3 data starting from approximately 08:30 (UTC) sensing time could be delayed.

While two explorers were having problems cruising the ice across the North Pole on skies, due to bad weather and complications with equipment, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites lent a hand to guide rescuers through the maze of ice and water to save the day.

Featuring how the Sentinel missions of the European Union's Copernicus programme, particularly Sentinel-1, have become a game-changer to the Danish Meteorological Institute's Ice Service and to the project – Automated Sea Ice Products – creating a robust, automated sea ice information service, solving the main needs of Arctic marine users.

The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research.

Copernicus Sentinel-5P NRT data users are informed that due to a scheduled ground segment upgrade on 11 December the near real time (NRT) processing of orbits 11192 to 11196 are be likely to be impacted. 

The timelines of the Copernicus Sentinel-5P product Methane (CH4) will be improved as from 11 December.