On April 11,2006, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner…
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‘Happy face’ crater on Mars
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
Iceberg collision from Space
An enormous iceberg, C-16, rammed into the well-known Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial…
Asteroids a threat to the future ?
If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 � about 500 m in…
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…