ESA Web-TV - Earth from Space: Recent Episodes
ESA Video Archive Manager
Discover more about our planet with the new Earth from Space video programme presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Join us every Friday at 10:00 CET at http://multimedia.esa.int/Live for an 800 km-high tour with spectacular images acquired by Earth-observing satellites. New editions will be added to this podcast shortly after the transmission.
For the one-hundredth regular edition, we explore an area blanketed with hundreds of fields near the Italian city of Cento - which means 'hundred' in Italian.
In this special edition, Josef Aschbacher, Head of Programme Planning and Coordination Service for ESA's Earth Observation programmes, joins the show to discuss the first satellite mission being launched for the Copernicus programme, Sentinel-1.
In this special edition, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano joins the show to share his view of Earth from space while on the International Space Station.
In the ninety-fifth edition, we look at the Cotopaxi and Antisana volcanoes in Ecuador's northern highlights.
A false-colour satellite image shows the Kumbunbur Creek in Australia's Northern Territory in the ninety-fourth edition.
In this special edition, Director of Global Climate Observing System, Carolin Richter, and the Head of ESA's Earth Observation Programme Planning and Coordination, Stephen Briggs, join the show to discuss satellite Earth observation and the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS).
In this special edition, David Vaughan from the British Antarctic Survey and Albert Klein Tank from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) join the show to discuss how satellites observe the effects that climate change has on our planet.
The ninety-second edition features the city of Jeddah's seaport on Saudi Arabia's western coast.
For World Wetlands Day 2014, the ninety-first edition features the Zambezi River's floodplain in western Zambia.
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and the plains in southern Kenya are pictured in a false-colour image featured in the ninetieth edition.
The tree-shaped Westfjords peninsula in Iceland is pictured in the eighty-eighth edition.
In the eighty-seventh edition, multi-coloured layers of rock in South Australia's Flinders Ranges are featured.
The eighty-fourth edition features an Envisat image of the Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran.
The Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil's rainforest is featured the eighty-first edition.
Fjords and ice streams along southern Greenland are featured in the seventy-ninth edition.
In this special edition, Geoff Sawyer, Secretary General of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), joins the show to discuss how European industry links Earth observation to international development.
In the seventy-seventh edition, we travel deep into the Sahara Desert to Libya's Al Jawf oasis.
In the seventy-fourth edition, we explore the northwestern part of Greece and the Paxi islands.
This special edition is dedicated to the International Charter Space and Major Disasters. Charter Secretary Jens Danzeglocke, from the DLR German Aerospace Center, joins the show to tell us more.
The Virunga Mountains that stretch across Rwanda's northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic of the Congo are featured in the seventy-third edition.
In the seventy-second edition, we examine an Envisat radar image centred on the man-made Raystown Lake in the US state of Pennsylvania.
Check out one of the first images from Proba-V over the border region of northern Syria, southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq in the seventy-first edition.
In this special edition, Anthony Gad Bigio, Senior Urban Specialist from the World Bank Sustainable Development Network, joins the show to discuss how the World Bank can use Earth observation satellite data.
In the seventieth edition, the Spanish port city of Barcelona and surrounding landscapes are pictured.
In this special edition, Bianca Hoersch, Proba-V Mission Manager, and Stefano Bianchi, Vega Programme Manager, join the show to look back on Vega's May launch and what to expect from the Proba-V mission.
In the sixty-sixth edition, we discover why the Kazakh region of Mangistau is sometimes called the 'treasure peninsula'.
In this special edition, Stephen Coulson, Head of Industry Section at ESA, joins the show to discuss how international banks are using Earth observation data.
In the sixty-third edition, we look at an underwater sinkhole in the Belize Barrier Reef.
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli joins the show to share his view of Earth from space while on board the International Space Station.
Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is discussed in the sixty-second edition.
In the sixty-first edition, we explore the agricultural Palouse region in the northwest United States.
An area covering northern Namibia and southern Angola is featured in the sixtieth edition.
In the fifty-seventh edition, we examine before-and-after satellite images over two harvest seasons in 2012 in the eastern Nile Delta.
In the fifty-sixth edition, discover the Pacific island named after what is today's northern Scotland.
Southern central Romania and the Cotmeana river are featured in the fifty-fifth edition.
In the fifty-third edition, discover Lake Powell and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in the United States.
See where the first person to fly an aeroplane in the Arctic took off from on his pioneering flights in the fifty-first edition.
The San Francisco Bay Area in the US state of California is pictured in the fiftieth edition.
In this edition, we look at a rare cloud-free view of Ireland, Great Britain and northern France.
In this edition, we look at the Po River, which flows over 650 km across northern Italy.
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Andrew Shepherd from the University of Leeds and Erik Ivins from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory join the show to discuss our planet's polar ice sheets. Their new research shows that melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has contributed 11.1 millimetres to global sea levels since 1992.
The islands of Elba and Pianosa off Italy's north western coast are featured in the forty-fifth edition.
In this edition, we look at the northern end of the Persian Gulf, the Shatt al-Arab river and a wildlife refuge.
In this edition, we look at Europe's westernmost nation, covered by glaciers and volcanoes.
In this edition, we examine a false-colour Landsat image showing agricultural structures in the US state of Kansas.
In this special edition, Anny Cazenave, altimetry specialist and Senior Scientist at the LEGOS research centre (Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales) and at the French space agency, CNES, joins us from the '20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium' held in Venice, Italy, 24-29 September.
In this edition, we explore West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea and the Cameroon Volcanic Line.
In this edition, we look at a colourful image of agriculture in Russia's Black Earth Region.
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Ghassem Asrar, Director of the World Climate Research Programme, joins the show from the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium held in Munich, Germany from 22-27 July.
In this edition, 24 years of Amazon Rainforest deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rondonia are shown in a simulated animation.
In this edition, we look at Mont Saint Michel and its surrounding bay in northwest France.
In this edition, we observe the southern Atacama Desert in South America, where the filming of scenes set on Mars have taken place.
In this special edition, Volker Liebig, Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programmes, and Alain Ratier, Director-General of Eumetsat, join us from the GMES in Action conference in Copenhagen to discuss Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.
In this edition, we see a 25 km long crack in the largest glacier of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
In this edition, Africa's highest mountains and largest lake are pictured in an image from the Envisat satellite.
In this edition, we look at the Mississippi River Delta, where the largest river in the United States empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
In this special edition, Tommaso Parrinello, CryoSat Mission Manager, and Duncan Wingham, Chief Executive of the UK's Natural Environment Research Council, join us from the Royal Society in London to discuss the past, present and future of ESA's ice mission.
In this edition, we examine two images from the Envisat satellite showing northern France and its 'urban heat islands'.
In this edition, we look at a spring bloom of phytoplankton off of Ireland's northwest coast in the North Atlantic Ocean.
In this edition, we look at an image of the Jurua River snaking through the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil.
In this edition, we look at an example of what a high-resolution image could look like from the future Sentinel-2 mission - envisaged for launch next year. The mockup was constructed using 82 images from the German RapidEye satellites.
In this edition, we look at an Envisat image of frozen lakes, dotting the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
In this special edition, Rune Floberghagen, Swarm Mission Manager, joins the show to discuss the upcoming magnetic field mission.
In this edition, we look at two images of Europe at night showing lights from sources in cities and along roads.
In this edition, we look at an image of the Indonesian islands of Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa.
In this edition, we look at an image from the Envisat satellite of Russias Sikhote-Alin mountain range.
In this edition, we look at the sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in western Algeria.
In this edition, we look at an image of West Africa's coast along the Atlantic Ocean, pictured in the first image from Envisat's MERIS instrument nearly a decade ago.
In this special edition, Envisat Mission Manager, Henri Laur, joins the show to discuss ten years of the Earth-observing mission.
In this edition, we look at the icy waters of the Baltic Sea surrounding Germany's largest island, Ruegen.
In this edition, we explore a region widely considered to be where early Homo sapiens emerged some 400 000 years ago.
In this edition, we look at the snow-kissed Alps, Italys Apennines and point out some major lakes.
In this edition, we look at the Chinese city of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and discover why tens of thousands of hairy crabs were recently released into the water.
In this special edition, the Director of ESA's Earth Observation Programmes, Professor Volker Liebig, joins the show to discuss Earth observation for the coming year.
In this edition, we examine an image showing graceful golden curves - can you guess what they are?
In this edition, we look at the Indus River snaking through Pakistan and a seasonal salt marsh on the border with western India.
In this edition, we look at the Tian Shan mountains, stretching across the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and western China.
In this edition, we explore the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere: the Great Salt Lake.
In this edition, we look at a Landsat-5 image of the intertidal Wadden Sea and reclaimed lands in the Netherlands. ESA has recently opened archived Landsat data for use by the scientific community, free of charge.
In this edition, we look at a new, underwater volcano off the coast of the Canary island, El Hierro.
In this edition, phytoplankton highlight the whirls of ocean currents in spectacular shades of blue and green.