ATV-5: Georges Lemaître, Monseigneur Big Bang

With ATV-5 George Lemaitre soon to be launched to the ISS from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, ESA…

ATV-5 Heritage

The fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV-5 , is scheduled to lift off at 01h43…

A galaxy with a glowing heart

This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as…

Comet on 4 July 2014

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by the narrow angle camera of Rosetta’s scientific imaging system, OSIRIS, on 4…

Hellespontus Montes in 3D

Data from the nadir channel and one stereo channel of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on…

Hellespontus Montes in context

The Hellas basin is a large impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. It contains…

Perspective view of Hellespontus Montes

Perspective view of Hellespontus Montes, a rocky ridge on the western rim of the vast Hellas…

Hellespontus Montes topography

This is a colour-coded topography map of a portion of the western rim of the Hellas…

CAVES 2014 instructors

ESA’s CAVES team preparing the 2014 underground astronaut training course. CAVES – short for Cooperative Adventure…

CAVES 2013 debriefing

Why is living and working underground in a cave similar to being in space? Experienced spacewalkers and…