All of ESA and NASA’s orbiters provide data relay services for surface missions, which currently comprises…
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Earth Return Orbiter over Mars
Artist’s impression of ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter flying over Mars. Bringing samples from Mars is the…
Earth Return Orbiter and Mars sample container
Artist’s impression of ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter and Mars sample container over Earth. Bringing samples from…
Mars Sample Return – Earth Return Orbiter
Artist’s impression of ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter. Bringing samples from Mars is the logical next step…
Earth Return Orbiter in Mars orbit
Artist’s impression of ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter in orbit over Mars. Bringing samples from Mars is…
ExoMars PanCam filters
This may look like a collection of colourful contact lenses and in some respects there are…
Come a little closer
This Picture of the Week stars Messier 90, a beautiful spiral galaxy located roughly 60 million light-years from the…
Western Pakistan
Captured on 14 April 2018 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite, this image shows western Pakistan and…
Earth from space: Western Pakistan
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over western…
Air and water balloons in hypergravity
An air balloon, left, and water balloon, right, subjected to hypergravity conditions inside ESA’s Large Diameter…