OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 24 August 2016, when Rosetta was 9.3 km from the…
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Third Bosphorus Bridge
This image from the Sentinel-2A satellite captures Turkey's Third Bosphorus Bridge on 8 February 2016. The…
Mutant strip
Mutant soybeans planted as part of a campaign to support the development of ESA’s FLEX mission…
Location of the outburst
On 19 February 2016 Rosetta’s instruments detected an outburst event from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The source was…
Easy rider
Technology image of the week: astronaut Andreas Mogensen combines VR with an air-bearing platform to simulate…
Andreas Mogensen using VR in Orbital Robotics Lab
Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a summer visit to ESTEC’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory, experiencing weightless…
The real thing
The European Service Module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond is…
Comet on 18 August 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera
OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 18 August 2016, when Rosetta was 6.1 km from the…
Planck’s flame-filled view of the Polaris Flare
This image from ESA’s Planck satellite appears to show something quite ethereal and fantastical: a sprite-like…
Proba-3: seeing through shadow to view Sun’s corona
Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth’s surface, to…