Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (not to scale).…
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Proba-V ready for work
Less than seven months from launch, Proba-V is ready to provide global vegetation data to users
Proba-V data ready for use
Less than seven months after launch, Earth-watcher Proba-V is ready to provide global vegetation data for…
Gold-coated mirror
A microscopic-3D image of a small area of an 'off the shelf' gold coated mirror, produced…
Río de la Plata
Río de la Plata estuary between Argentina and Uruguay, acquired by Proba-V in November 2013.
Sicily
Twin volcanic plumes – one ash, one gas – from Sicily’s Mt Etna. This image was…
Gravity scar over Japan
Changes in Earth’s gravity field resulting from the earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011…
A bizarre cosmic rarity: NGC 660
This new Hubble image shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 660, located around 45 million…
Sliding Galileo out of the Phenix test chamber
The Galileo Full Operational Constellation (FOC) satellite being removed from the Phenix test chamber on 29…
Galileo slid out of Phenix test chamber
ESTEC Test Centre engineers examine the Galileo Full Operational Capability satellite after it has been slid…