05/08/2020 (Agence Europe) – Copernicus, the European Earth observation programme, has revealed that there are about 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than currently estimated, according to a press release issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Wednesday 5 August. Thanks to satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, scientists working on the British Antarctic Survey were able to track penguin guano, thereby allowing them to monitor the presence of the birds...