Satellite navigation tracks rally cars

EGNOS makes the difference. This is what was demonstrated at the German round of the World…

Breath of the Dragon

ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China’s air quality China’s spectacular economic growth…

SMART-1 views Glushko crater

This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows…

XMM-Newton probe

ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has for the first time allowed scientists to study in detail the…

South Polar ozone hole

This season’s Antarctic ozone hole has swollen to an area of ten million square kilometres from…

Galileo satellite payload testing

Testing of the first Galileo satellites, which form part of what is called the Galileo System…

Portuguese wildfires

Plumes of smoke from serious wildfires across Portugal fan into the Atlantic in this Envisat satellite…

1000th comet

On 5 August 2005, the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft achieved an incredible milestone – the discovery of…

Zambia and Zimbabwe from space

The narrow, man-made Lake Kariba, located along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, as seen by…

Saturns rings have own atmosphere

Data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft indicate that Saturn’s majestic ring system has its own atmosphere…