3D cave mapping

During the CAVES mission environments and passages are surveyed using novel technology based on laser range…

Striking lightning from space

Lightning illuminates the area they strike on Earth but their flash can be seen from space…

Comet on 12 January 2015 – NavCam

This four-image mosaic comprises Rosetta navigation camera images taken from a distance of 27.9 km from…

Comet on 12 January 2015 – NavCam

This four-image mosaic comprises Rosetta navigation camera images taken from a distance of 27.9 km from…

Team Cora’s Eleven receiving their prizes

Venus Express snaps swirling vortex

This ghostly puff of smoke is actually a mass of swirling gas and cloud at Venus’…

Thomas Pesquet during training for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the training for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run, at the Neutral…

Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet during training for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance run

ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano (center) and Thomas Pesquet (left) training together for INC-49/INC-50 ISS EVA Maintenance…

‘Of bees and lunar landers’ – biomimetics and space

Tobias Seidl holds a PhD in Biomimetics. He talks about his ESA Research Fellow projects and…

My heart beats for mathematics

Anna Heffernan holds a PhD in Fundamental Physics and shares her experiences as ESA Research Fellow…