Greenland’s largest and capital city, Nuuk, is located in a cloud-prone region (entirely overcast at least 70% of the time) and therefore often overlooked in optical satellite imagery. This timelapse shows the snowy landscapes and icy waters in the area around the city that faces average temperatures varying from -8 to +7° C.

Lake Balaton in Hungary is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe. Throughout the satellite’s lifetime, PROBA-V captured different states of the lake and surroundings, showing for instance a completely frozen lake in early 2017. The microclimate around Lake Balaton regularly results in 5 to 7 cm more precipitation than most of Hungary.

Thanks to the daily global observations,  PROBA-V is  able to capture several rare cloud-free pictures of Malspina glacier, the largest piedmont glacier that is located in southeastern Alaska. Due to its vast size,  that is  estimated as 3,900 km² with a depth of 600 m, the melting of this glacier could contribute up to 1% of the rise of the global sea level, as evidenced by satellite imagery and radar data.

This timelapse shows beauty of the northern half of the African continent, the second largest continent in the world in size and population. It nicely features the strong seasonal variations in vegetation and dependence on rainfall and temperature, that is characteristic of the Sahel region, just to the south of the vast Sahara Desert. The Sahel receives about 200 to 600 mm of rainfall a year, which falls mostly in the May to September rainy season.

Pivot irrigation is a common agricultural practice aiming to nourish the world’s growing population and livestock. This 100 m PROBA-V timelapse of 100 m PROBA-V imagery shows the almost breathing agricultural area of Wadi as Sirhan Basin in Saudi Arabia from 2014 to now, highlighting the irrigated fields in red, in sharp contrast to the surrounding, yellowish desert sand. Notice the growing amount of fields in the northeastern region over the course of the last three years.