ISS to receive experimental figurehead

What resembles the head and torso of a human and will be attached outside the International…

Desert markings imaged from orbit

Visible from ESA’s Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many…

COSMIC MOBY DICK

Like the massive white whale in Herman Melville’s 1851 classic “Moby Dick,” comets have long been…

Rosetta – a space sophisticate

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will be getting under way in February 2004. The Rosetta…

Weather eye on Europe

ESA’s new Weather Today website allows you to access data from space relied upon by weather…

ESA Mars Express calls up NASA Spirit Rover

A pioneering demonstration of communications between the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter and NASA’s Mars…

Olympus Mons – the caldera in close-up

View from overhead of the complex caldera (summit crater) at the summit of Olympus Mons on…

Earth Explorer missions

An important milestone for ESA’s Living Planet Programme is to be reached this spring when it…

Landslide warnings from satellite

As winter rains come, thousands of square kilometres of territory across Europe’s heart face a looming…

EGNOS improves navigation safety

The fog today is hanging heavy on the Yangtze River making conditions for navigation rather difficult,…