On the last night of February 2002 ESA’s Envisat – the largest and most sophisticated Earth…
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Mars volcano in 3D
Hecates Tholus volcano as seen by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express during…
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…