NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:03 p.m. EST on 11 February on its way to an orbit one million miles from Earth. DSCOVR will give NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) forecasters more reliable measurements of solar wind conditions, improving their ability to monitor potentially harmful solar activity.

Ordos City, China

This Flock 1 image, acquired 24 January 2015, shows the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, China.

Intended to house over a million people when it began construction in 2003, the city today is home to only approximately 20,000.

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), one of five instruments that will fly on-board NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite, has successfully completed its pre-shipment review.

Circling hundreds of miles above Earth, weather satellites are working round-the-clock to provide rainfall data that are key to a complex system of global flood prediction.

Scientists are tracking snails from space in a bid to combat the spread of parasitic disease in Africa.

The systematic bulk processing of the MERIS Level 2 Full Resolution Full Swath dataset has been completed, and the FRS Level 2 products (MER_FRS_2P) have been made available to users on the ESA centralised dissemination server together with the previously released MERIS FRS Level 1 data (MER_FRS_1P).