ESA’s data archiving centre in Frascati (Italy) handles Petabites of data, coming down from Earth observation satellites every day. But how do engineers store them for decades and make them available to tens of Thousands of scientists in our technologically ever changing world? This stop-motion video explains it. It’s shown to visitors at ESRIN’s new data centre exhibition on site. See it here in its full 3min length in English or in Italian.