Eyeing strain

Satellite structures must stay rigid, resisting the extreme accelerations, vibrations and temperature shifts of spaceflight. This…

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…