MSG-3 (Meteosat-10) captured this image of Earth on 22 April 2015 with its Spinning Enhanced Visible…
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ESA
Working on Biolab
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working with ESA’s Biolab facility on the International Space Station for the…
Laser complexity
The ADM-Aeolus satellite’s second Aladin laser prior to closure showing the complexity of the 80 optical…
Laser test bench
This ESA test bench is usually shrouded in darkness, except for the laser beam being projected…
Space snack time with Samantha Cristoforetti
The astronauts on board the International Space Station get hungry from time to time during their…
Sentinel-2A: Watching Earth
ESA is developing a new family of satellites, called Sentinels, specifically for the operational needs of…
Comet on 15 April 2015 (b) – NavCam
This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 15 April 2015…
Intense X-rays sculpt Thor’s neon-hued helmet
This brightly coloured scene shows a giant cloud of glowing gas and dust known as NGC…
Dust grains from Comet 67P
One of the target plates from Rosetta's Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser (COSIMA), showing dust grains…
Elliptical galaxy IC 2006
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows an elliptical galaxy known as IC 2006. Massive elliptical…