This colour-coded overhead view is based on an ESA Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera digital terrain…
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Southeast of Amenthes Planum
High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013…
Amenthes Planum in context
The area imaged by Mars Express on 13 January 2013 lies southeast of the Amenthes Planum…
Valley feeding Palos Crater
This computer-generated perspective view of a network of short valleys feeding Palos crater was created using…
Trough feeding Amenthes Planum
Computer-generated perspective view of the southeastern corner of the volcanic plains of Amenthes Planum, This view…
Silicon brains to oversee satellites
A beautiful and expensive sight: upwards of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers, crammed with the complex…
Silicon wafers etched with integrated circuits for space missions
A beautiful and expensive sight: upwards of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers, crammed with the complex…
Monthly sea ice volume
Time-series of monthly Arctic sea ice volume from CryoSat (red circles) and from PIOMAS (solid line)…
Navigating in space
ESA’s Flight Dynamics team uses cutting-edge computational techniques to plan, determine and control complex spacecraft trajectories.…
ESA’s Rosetta lander Philae landing on the nucleus of a comet
The challenge of landing on a comet is not to bounce away again. Philae lands on…