Libyas Circles of Life

The Al Kufrah Oasis in southeastern Libya, one of the most easily recognisable landmarks from the…

Strange Magnetic Behaviour

Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic…

Libya Montes valley on Mars

These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…

Ocean Surface Velocities

For more than a decade space-based radar instruments have been routinely observing ocean surface phenomena including…

General Relativity

Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field…

Cannibal Stars

ESA’s XMM-Newton has seen vast clouds of superheated gas, whirling around miniature stars and escaping from…

Space suit technology

The technology used in space suits to protect astronauts carrying out space walks in direct sunlight…

Night Views of European Seas

The Mediterranean looks better in the dark – at least in the view of an ESA-led…

Scandinavian Peninsula From Space

ESA’s Envisat captured the snow-covered Scandinavian Peninsula on 11 March, 2006. See it at: http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMGFTNVGJE_index_0.html

Pacific Height Shows La Ninia

Satellite measurements of a steep difference in sea surface height between the western and eastern tropical…