ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser has photographed itself in space at a distance of 35 million kilometres from…
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SMART-1 views Europe
The first picture of Earth taken by the SMART-1 spacecraft on 21 May 2004 from a…
Did comets flood Earths oceans?
Did the Earth form with water locked into its rocks, which then gradually leaked out over…
Cassini-Huygens looks at Phoebe
Images collected during the Cassini-Huygens close fly-by of Saturn’s moon Phoebe give strong evidence that the…
Space technology races round Le Mans
Spaceflight engineers face three constant challenges: reducing weight and size, improving thermal insulation and increasing reliability.…
Perspective view of Melas Chasma
On 2 May 2004, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft…
Evidence of flooding on Mars
These images of fluvial surface features at Mangala Valles on Mars were obtained by the High…
Parabolic Flight Campaign underway
The 37th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign started last week in Bordeaux, France, with preparation and training…
A “Swarm” of satellites to look inside the Earth
ESA’s Earth Observation Programme Board has just decided which of the six Earth Explorer candidate missions,…
‘Music2Titan’: sounds of a spaceprobe
When ESA’s Huygens spaceprobe, travelling on board NASA’s Cassini spacecraft en route to Saturn, lands on…