A beautiful and expensive sight: upwards of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers, crammed with the complex…
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Monthly sea ice volume
Time-series of monthly Arctic sea ice volume from CryoSat (red circles) and from PIOMAS (solid line)…
Navigating in space
ESA’s Flight Dynamics team uses cutting-edge computational techniques to plan, determine and control complex spacecraft trajectories.…
ESA’s Rosetta lander Philae landing on the nucleus of a comet
The challenge of landing on a comet is not to bounce away again. Philae lands on…
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft in orbit around a comet
Rosetta is the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It is the first spacecraft to observe…
Hubble’s “Flying V”
This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects — a pair of interacting galaxies known…
Hot interior of the Eskimo Nebula
Hot X-ray-emitting gas detected by ESA’s XMM-Newton reveals the Eskimo’s blue face shining at 2 million…
African equatorial forest
The animation shows the change in vegetation in African equatorial forest from 12 months of data…
Lake Powell, United States
This Landsat image from 19 July 2011 shows Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River…