August Mars

Mars as seen by the low-resolution Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter…

Rosetta’s journey around the comet

Animation visualising Rosetta’s two-year journey around Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The animation begins on 31 July 2014, during…

Comet on 31 July 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 31 July 2016, when Rosetta was 9.9 km from the…

Artwork by Aoife van Linden Tol

Based in London, UK, Aoife is an artist working primarily with explosive media and the recipient of the…

Trying on a coat

Technology image of the week: candidate coatings for a new space antenna seen undergoing testing at…

Aladin ready for Aeolus

After many years in development, Aladin – the Doppler wind lidar to be carried on the…

Solar eruption larger than Earth

A gigantic ribbon of hot gas bursts upwards from the Sun, guided by a giant loop…

Sentinel-3’s scanning radiometer

The Sentinel-3 satellites carry a package of different instruments including the Sea and Land Surface Temperature…

Sentinel-3 scans Earth’s colour

Sentinel-3’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument  (OLCI) is based on heritage from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging…

Earth from Space: Iranian painting

Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…