Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback is featured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite. The rock…
Category: Multimedia
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…
Cosmic caterpillar
This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a…