Sea-level detail from CryoSat

Detail of sea-surface topography: red represents higher sea levels while blue areas are lower. The ‘strips’…

Station over Darmstadt

This image is a composite of nine photos taken 5–10 minutes after midnight on 6–7 June…

Herschel’s population of trans-Neptunian objects

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a…

Cosmic collision in the Bullet Group

A composite view of the Bullet Group reveals its constituents and their peculiar arrangement. The hot…

Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa, is pictured in this image from Japan’s ALOS satellite…

Solar eruption

A class M1.3 flare can be observed from the Central-East active region on 3 June 2014…

Main Rosetta burn

Rosetta is now closing its target: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and key manoeuvres have been done recently to…

Earth from Space: Mount Kenya

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Explore Mount…

Eye experiment

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst checking his eyes in space for NASA’s Ocular Health research into how…

Exercise time

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst using the International Space Station’s Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) to keep…