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Titan’s volcano may release methane
A team of European and US scientists, using Cassini-Huygens data, have found that Saturn’s smoggy moon…
Aurorae on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has for the first time ever detected an aurora on Mars. This…
Calcium on the Moon
Thanks to measurements by the D-CIXS X-ray spectrometer, ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft has made the first ever…
A “Swarm” of Satellites
ESA’s Earth Observation Programme Board has just decided which of the six Earth Explorer candidate missions,…
Bromo East of Java
ESA’s micro-satellite Proba observes the active Bromo volcano, a popular tourist attraction of East Java in…
Ancient floods on Mars
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show…
Foton successfully launched
An unmanned Foton-M spacecraft carrying a mainly European payload was put into orbit by a Russian…
Preparing for impact
On 4 July 2005, the NASA Deep Impact spacecraft will visit Comet 9P/Tempel 1. It will…
Success with EGNOS
A pioneering flight from Dakar to Mombasa using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), the…