Lidar curtain

Europe’s new airborne multiwavelength high spectral resolution lidar will be similar to NASA’s High Spectral Resolution…

Venus close-up

Launched in 2005, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has been able to observe the Earth’s so called…

Butterfly death throes

Many celestial objects are beautiful – swirling spiral galaxies or glittering clusters of stars are notable…

Night fisheye timelapse

This timelapse video from space was taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the Cupola observatory…

Protective underwear

The protective underwear prototyped by Swedish Björn Borg for welders in steel mills. The development is…

Comet on 8 October – NavCam

Four-image montage comprising images taken by Rosetta's navigation camera on 8 October from a distance of…

Revealing the iriss mission patch

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen reveals the iriss mission patch to international press gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark.…

Southern Darfur, Sudan

This image from Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite on 8 February 2013 shows an area in the southern…

Earth from Space: Kalma

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The image…

CAVES 2014: Mission log, day 5

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov acting as Survey Engineer introduces day 5 of the CAVES 2014 campaign. The crew…