Deforestation in the state of Rondônia in western Brazil, as imaged by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite. This…
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Docking the last Automated Transfer Vehicle
ESA’s fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle, Georges Lemaître, arrived at the International Space Station on…
Delivering oxygen to the Space Station
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is responsible for unloading all the cargo from ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle…
Cooking a comet, ingredients for life? – classroom demonstration video, VP06
This video, part of the ESA 'Teach with space' series, shows an experiment that can be…
How big is Rosetta compared with the comet?
This short animation explains the relative sizes of the Rosetta spacecraft and Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta is…
Cooking a comet, ingredients for life? – classroom demonstration video, VP06
This video, part of the ESA 'Teach with space' series, shows an experiment that can be…
Ariane 5 flight VA220 liftoff replay
On 16 October 2014, Ariane 5 flight VA220 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana…
Bathed in green
During the evening of 8 October 2014, ESA’s observatory on the island of Tenerife, Spain, lit…
Lake County, Oregon
This image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon…
What does Philae do during descent?
Infographic to summarise the measurements carried out by Rosetta’s lander, Philae, during its seven-hour descent to…