Bombay India

The southern part of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India as seen from ESA’s Proba microsatellite. The…

Hourglass Shaped Craters

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

PlayStation Previews Space Ttechnology

PlayStation users worldwide can now see for themselves what happens when Ariane launcher technology is applied…

Global Check of Methane Emissions

The SCIAMACHY sensor aboard Envisat has performed the first space-based measurements of the global distribution of…

Satellite-assisted bird preservation

In the forests of the Haute-Savoy region of the French Alps, a Swiss biologist forces his…

Vega on track for 2007

There are only three years to go until the first launch of a new European launcher…

Double Volcanic Eruption

Acquired from orbit 800 kilometres away, this Envisat image shows two volcanoes erupting simultaneously on Russia’s…

Moonrise above the Pacific

During lits Earth-skimming fly-by, Rosetta’s Navigation Cameras captured images looking down and ahead. While cloud formations,…

Satellites Guide Top Yachts

Three of the world’s largest and fastest yachts are in the midst of a non-stop trans-global…

Rosetta’s view of Earth

After skimming by the Earth at just 1954 km on 4 March 2005, Rosetta turned its…