The European Space Agency's Earth from Space feature for 30 October 2026 presents an image of Super Typhoon Champi captured on 21 October 2026 by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, taken off the coasts of Taiwan and the Philippines. According to ESA, the false-colour image highlights the storm's eye, which spans approximately 50 km across.

ESA describes Champi as the strongest tropical cyclone recorded so far this year, with maximum sustained winds of 296 km per hour. The image was produced by the satellite's Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer, which measures radiance in thermal infrared wavelengths. This radiance is used to infer brightness temperature, which may differ from actual temperature; in the image, assigned colours distinguish cold cloud tops from warmer ocean and land surfaces. The agency says the storm brought serious flooding and damage across eastern Taiwan and caused waves of up to 10 m near the storm's centre.

The image contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data from 2026, processed by ESA, and is released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA Standard Licence.