09/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - First Sentinel-1A Earth observation images. On Thursday 8 May, the European Commission and the European Space Agency published some of the first high-quality images delivered by Sentinel-1A launched on 3 April 2014. (www.ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=7506). The images on the state of sea ice, the sea and of the land underline that Copernicus, the largest civil Earth observation programme ever conceived, is progressing according to...