Three years of measurements from CryoSat show that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is estimated to…
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Multiwavelength solar eclipse activity
This animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November…
Multiwavelength solar eclipse activity
This animated gallery depicts solar activity during the day of the solar eclipse on 3 November…
Filling of the Gaia spacecraft fuel tanks
Filling of the Gaia spacecraft fuel tanks at the Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. A…
Media briefing: Rosetta wake-up and the year ahead
On 20 January 2014, after 957 days of hibernation in deep space, ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft…
How Rosetta wakes up from deep space hibernation
Visualisation of how the Rosetta spacecraft wakes up from deep space hibernation, 673 million kilometres from…
A members-only galaxy club
This new Hubble image shows a handful of galaxies in the constellation of Eridanus (The River).…
Placing Gaia in the payload transport container (CCU3)
Gaia in the S1B building, Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, French Guiana.
Mars 360: the north pole
Enjoy views of the martian north pole from all angles in this new animation from ESA’s…
Liège, Belgium
Seen from the International Space Station at night Liège, or Luik in Flemish, lights up like…