ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. TGO will be launched in 2016 with Schiaparelli, the entry,…

Monitoring lake ice

In northern Alaska, within the Arctic circle, the ice regimes of shallow lakes were documented using…

Uprint Calendar – February 2014

This false-colour image from Japan’s ALOS satellite was acquired over part of southern Kenya and the…

Hubble’s modern art

A piece of art? A time-lapse photo? A flickering light show? At first glance, this image…

Winter survival training in Russia

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen (left) takes part in winter survival  training near Star City outside Moscow,…

Zambezi River, Zambia

This image from Envisat’s radar shows the Zambezi River’s floodplain in western Zambia. The city of…

Earth from Space: Colours of time

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. For World…

ESA Euronews: Rosetta: The Comet Hunter Awakes

The exploits of comet-hunting spacecraft Rosetta are generating intense interest as it speeds towards a dramatic…

Fast track: ESA Malargüe station (full)

Time-compressed video compiled from hourly webcam images showing the construction of ESA's 35m deep-space ground tracking…

Tianjin, China

Tianjin, China, lies around 100 km southeast of Beijing near China’s eastern coast. At the top…