This short animation explains the relative sizes of the Rosetta spacecraft and Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta is…
Month: October 2014
NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Arrives at Launch Site
A NASA spacecraft designed to track Earth's water in one of its most important, but least…
NASA’s Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has…
Wiseman and Wilmore Spacewalk Preparations
Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman (right) and Barry Wilmore spent most of the day on Tuesday, Oct.…
Bathed in green
During the evening of 8 October 2014, ESA’s observatory on the island of Tenerife, Spain, lit…
Lake County, Oregon
This image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon…
What does Philae do during descent?
Infographic to summarise the measurements carried out by Rosetta’s lander, Philae, during its seven-hour descent to…
Philae’s primary landing site – mosaic
Close-up of the region containing Philae’s primary landing site J, which is located on the ‘head’…
Ariane 5 is moved to the launch zone for Arianespace’s fifth heavy-lift flight in 2014
The workhorse Ariane 5 for tomorrow's Arianespace mission from French Guiana is now ready for liftoff…
Ariane 5 is moved to the launch zone for Arianespace’s fifth heavy-lift flight in 2014
The workhorse Ariane 5 for tomorrow's Arianespace mission from French Guiana is now ready for liftoff…