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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,…
Oxygen and carbon discovered
The well-known extrasolar planet HD 209458b, provisionally nicknamed ‘Osiris’, has surprised astronomers again. Oxygen and carbon…
Getting together in deep space
The Rosetta space probe’s long trek to Comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko The countdown to Rosetta’s rendezvous in…
X-ray shout echoing through space
ESA’s X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has imaged a spectacular set of rings which appear to expand, with…
Artificial island arises off Dubai
The rapidly changing face of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is portrayed by contrasting Synthetic…