Satellite structures must stay rigid, resisting the extreme accelerations, vibrations and temperature shifts of spaceflight. This…
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Artist’s impression of Gaia
Artist's impression of Gaia. Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our…
Tagus Valles topography
This colour-coded overhead view is based on an ESA Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera digital terrain…
Deformation in a flooded crater
This close-up perspective view focuses on the craters in the centre of the main colour image.…
Landslides inside a crater
One of the deepest craters in the region of the main colour image lies in the…
Tagus Valles 3D
The region north of Hesperia Planum and close to Tagus Valles was imaged during orbit 11504…
Tagus Valles colour view
In the ancient cratered southern highlands of Mars, the faint traces of a wet past are…
Working inside ATV
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy working inside ATV-4. The cargo inside the pressurised compartment of the ATV…
ATV-4 docked to Zvezda
ATV Albert Einstein docked on 15 June 2013 to Russia’s Zvezda module. ATV-4 was the heaviest…
Preparing for CAVES 2013
ESA's unique training programme for astronauts, CAVES, will take place in Sardinia's Supramonte in September. Six…