Winter snow blankets the heights of the Pamir Mountains and the Hindu Kush in this Envisat…
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XMM-Newton scores 1000
XMM-Newton, ESA’s X-ray observatory, continues its quest for the unknown. This month, after five years of…
Spacecraft, heal thyself
Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive…
Space Propulsion Breakthrough
The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of…
Butterfly Impact Crater
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
Japans ALOS in orbit
ALOS, Japan’s latest Earth Observation satellite, was successfully launched at 02:33 CET (10:33 Japan time) on…
Juventae Chasma Mars
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
Pollution hunting in the light and shadows
Since March 2002, SCIAMACHY has been chasing our planet’s pollution. The latest edition of the EuroNews…
The Huygens landing: one year later
A little over one year ago, on 14 January 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe reached the upper…
Poyang Lake from Space
This Envisat image shows the patchy waters of Poyang Lake (Poyang Hu) in winter. In summer…