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Automatically stitching together multiple images from Sentinel-2, Austrian company EOX gives us an unobstructed view of Earth To source

As international experts convene in Stockholm for World Water Week, discover how satellites help to manage this precious resource for irrigation To source

Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini is making its final dives between Saturn and its rings before the mission’s grand finale next month To source

Sentinel-3A takes Hurricane Harvey’s temperature as the storm gains strength and moves towards Texas To source

Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint ‘survival’ whispers from one of ESA’s Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet. To source

Our week through the lens: 21-25 August 2017 To source

ESA participated in the Kid’s Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Rêves de Gosse giving children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on a parabolic flight.  To source

ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China’s coastal city of Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish a long term cooperation with China and ESA astronaut to fly on China’s space station. To source

Operations image of the week: During the first open day at ESA’s centre in Germany in 1974, one young visitor kept his eye on the camera while crowds mobbed the main control room To source

Sentinel-2 shows blazes and dramatic burn scars from wildfires in Greece To source

Technology image of the week: This crew of Polish ‘astronauts’ are testing altered perceptions of time during a two-week simulated stay on the Moon To source

ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Samantha Cristoforetti participate in Chinese sea survival training To source

Human spaceflight and robotic operations image of the week: Sun returns after four months of darkness in Antarctica To source