Saturn

The huge storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles…

Uluru/Ayers Rock

Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback is featured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite. The rock…

Earth from Space: Island mountain

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Uluru/Ayers Rock…

Becquerel Crater wind blown sediments

Prominent patches of wind-blown dust, possibly mixed with volcanic ash, radiate from Becquerel crater and into…

Arctic ice thickness 2010–13

ESA’s CryoSat satellite has built up a three-year record of sea-ice thickness in the Arctic. This…

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Copernicus programme. It is a…

Roof-topping Richtfest

Invited guests, VIPs and media watching the 'Richtkrone' being lifted into place at the Richftfest roof-topping…

Andreas Mogensen parabolic flight

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is seen here during an aircraft flight in 2010 when he enjoyed…

Space in a bottle

Inspecting a vacuum chamber in the ESA Propulsion Laboratory. ESTEC labs test candidate parts and materials for…

Spacewalks

During his second spacewalk in July, Esa astronaut Luca Parmitano experienced an unexpected yet extremely dangerous…