On 30 October, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, one of the two spacecraft of ESA’s BepiColombo mission,…
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Philae spotted by Rosetta after first landing
These animated images provide strong evidence that Rosetta’s Philae lander touched down for the first time…
Futura mission: Launch preparation 1
In this video diary from ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, he reports from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, where…
ESA’s technical heart celebrates Rosetta’s Philae landing
Celebrating the landing of Rosetta’s Philae lander on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at ESA’s technical heart. Along with the…
2014 Big Data from Space conference
Held at ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy, in November 2014, the ‘Big…
First comet panoramic
Rosetta’s lander Philae has returned the first panoramic image from the surface of a comet. The…
Comet from 40 metres
This image was taken by Philae's down-looking descent ROLIS imager when it was about 40 m…
Searching for Philae
This five-image montage of OSIRIS narrow-angle images is being used to try to identify the final…
First touchdown close-up 1
This image shows an OSIRIS narrow-angle image taken from a distance of 30 km on 14…
First touchdown
his image from Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera is marked to show the location of the first…