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…

Iranian painting

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to northeastern Iran, the second largest country in the Middle…

Testing mobiPV

Taking part in NASA's NEEMO 21 underwater training mission, Matthias Maurer, from the European Astronaut Centre,…

A long-dead star

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star. These rippling wisps…

Tim Peake at Futures Day, FIA 2016

ESA astronaut Tim Peake inaugurated Futures Day at Farnborough International Airshow on Friday 15 July, 2016.…

Mission controllers

Following a lengthy firing of its powerful engine, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on track…