The green landscapes of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg collectively known as Benelux as…
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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…