By kind courtesy of the news service provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) readers can view The Netherlands featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. This image was processed in a way that included the near-infrared channel, which makes vegetation appear bright red.

To the north of The Hague is the coastal town of Noordwijk, home to ESA’s European Space Technology Research Centre (ESTEC).
ESTEC is ESA’s technical centre where new missions are designed, their industrial development managed and, in some cases, spacecraft and instruments are tested.