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Copernicus Sentinel-1

ESA satellite mission providing radar imagery of Earth's surface day or night and through clouds, used to monitor glaciers, volcanoes, landslides, and floods.

Known aliases

  • Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission
  • ESA Sentinel-1
  • Sentinel-1
  • Sentinel-1 SAR
  • Sentinel-1 satellite
  • Sentinel-1 satellites

Current stories

scienceConfirmed3 publishers

Six years of satellite radar suggest Masaya volcano draws on more than one magma reservoir

Penn State researchers found Masaya's caldera sank then rose across six years of satellite radar, while its Santiago crater deflated throughout. The authors read that as two reservoirs behaving separately, something monitoring has to account for at a volcano within 21 km of 2 million people.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 38%
Operator
Operator 57%
Investor
Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives20
Confidence58
scienceOne report1 publisher

Petermann's 76-square-kilometer ice island survived its first collision intact

The August berg was the largest Arctic calving since 2020, but it broke along a fracture the team watching Petermann had not expected, leaving two rifts that together outline more than twice the area that left.

Publishers:nasa.gov phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap0
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence66
scienceOne report1 publisher

Two radars looking from opposite sides caught Erta Ale sinking during Hayli Gubbi's eruption

Wenbin Xu's team combined NISAR's left-looking radar with Sentinel-1's right-looking passes over Ethiopia's Afar Depression. The largest ground motion during November's Hayli Gubbi eruption sat next door, at Erta Ale.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence52
scienceOne report1 publisher

A master's project mapped 39,619 grounded icebergs holding Antarctic sea ice in place

A University of Tasmania master's project has produced the first continent-wide, high-resolution census of the icebergs grounded around Antarctica, the anchors that keep coastal fast ice from drifting off into the Southern Ocean.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives55
Confidence60