Image of the week Apply Refine results Type Article General Categories Weather Organisation Meteosat Sentinel Tags Year of Weather Image of the week Date 2024 2023 SHOW ALL 25 results Sentinel Image of the week: North Sea phytoplankton bloom This week’s image of the week shows a large phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea, off the west coast of Scotland. Satellites Image of the week: Saharan dust from space This week’s image of the week focuses on Saharan dust moving across the Mediterranean Sea and passing over the Balearic Islands. Sentinel Image of the week: Desert dust from space This week’s image of the week focuses on Saharan dust moving across the Red Sea towards Saudi Arabia. Meteosat Image of the week: World Environment Day This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of our Meteosat geostationary weather satellite 36,000km above our planet. Sentinel Image of the week: Tropical Cyclone Ewiniar Tropical Cyclone Ewiniar brought high winds, heavy rainfall and flooding to Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, which caused casualties, power outages and property damage. Sentinel Image of the week: Cyclone Ialy This week’s image of the week is of Tropical Cyclone Ialy in the Indian Ocean, and it was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite. Meteosat Image of the week: Saharan dust from space Desert dust particles are lifted into the atmosphere by gusts of surface wind and can be transported and deposited thousands of kilometres away. Sentinel Image of the week: intriguing cloud patterns near the Cape Verde islands The cloud patterns are known as von Kármán vortices and are formed over the ocean when islands disrupt the wind flow. The strength of the wind affects the patterns of the swirls. Satellites Image of the week: phytoplankton bloom from space 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. Meteosat Image of the week: Earth view for Earth Day This week’s image of the week is of the Earth as seen from the vantage point of our Meteosat-10 geostationary weather satellite 36,000km above our planet. Weather Image of the week: Global weather from space 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. Sentinel Image of the week: Storm Kathleen This week’s image of the week shows Storm Kathleen which brought strong winds and rain to the UK and Ireland during the weekend of 6-7 April 2024. Load More