The second 20-metre antenna boom of the MARSIS instrument on board Mars Express was successfully …
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Panama Canal from Space
Appearing in this Envisat radar image like shining jewels, ships pass from the man-made Lake Gatun…
Ready for dinner on Mars?
‘Martian bread and green tomato jam’, ‘Spirulina gnocchis’ and ‘Potato and tomato mille-feuilles’ are three delicious…
Space Measurements of Carbon
Follow the carbon this is the mantra of researchers seeking to understand climate change and…
Titan’s volcano may release methane
A team of European and US scientists, using Cassini-Huygens data, have found that Saturn’s smoggy moon…
Aurorae on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has for the first time ever detected an aurora on Mars. This…
Calcium on the Moon
Thanks to measurements by the D-CIXS X-ray spectrometer, ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has made the first ever…
A “Swarm” of Satellites
ESA’s Earth Observation Programme Board has just decided which of the six Earth Explorer candidate missions,…
Bromo East of Java
ESA’s micro-satellite Proba observes the active Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction of East Java in…
Ancient floods on Mars
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show…