Hellas Basin rim

A portion of the vast Hellas Basin, incorporating the transition of the fractured, terraced rim (top)…

Hellas Basin rim topography

The colour-coded topographic view shows relative heights and depths of terrain in the Hellas Basin region…

Card-thick space antenna

A whole new kind of large space antenna has been tested in realistic space conditions. This…

Hellas Basin rim in 3D

This anaglyph image showing part of the Hellas Basin region on Mars provides a 3D view…

Team members by reflector

Members of the LABUM test team at the ESTEC Test Centre beside the 5-m reflector on…

To feel a falling feather

Technology image of the week: ESA's new microvibration machine can measure the forces imparted by a…

Six-degree-of-freedom microvibration machine

The latest addition to ESA’s satellite-testing facilities is this six-degree-of-freedom microvibration unit, sufficiently sensitive to identify…

Lonely lunch

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Floris van den Berg scans the horizon and contemplates life at Concordia research…

Moon Village

Almost 50 years since man first walked on the lunar surface, the head of the European…

Careers@Harwell

Pascal Lecomte speaks about the history and the aims of the ESA Climate Office which is…