Copernical Team
Week in images: 15-19 September 2025
Week in images: 15-19 September 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Earth from Space: Komodo Island, Indonesia
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This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia. 85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica
Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica’s icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea level rise.
Thanks to a decade of data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several kilometres under the frozen surface surrounding the South Pole. This increases the number of known active subglacial lakes below Antarctica by more than half to 231.
Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time
For much of the history of modern telecommunications, networks have been built from the ground up - literally. Fiber buried deep underground, towers rising skyward, microwave links bridging canyons - our entire expectation of coverage has been centered around what we can build and maintain on land. But no matter how tall the tower or fast the fiber, the physical landscape enforces limitations. How an astronaut calculates risk
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Brewery makes new beer from yeast launched in rocket
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Researchers determine that tea can grow in lunar soil
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NASA's Deep Space Communications demo exceeds project expectations
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How will SpaceX's massive Starship affect you when it comes to Florida?
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