This year started with a nice imaging opportunity for Solar Orbiter, and a chance to further improve the quality of its data. On January 3, 2023, inner planet Mercury crossed the spacecraft's field of view, resulting in a ...
Astronomy
Feb 21, 2023
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ESA's Euclid mission is undergoing the final test before launch in July 2023.
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2023
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No one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013 coming—the largest asteroid to strike Earth in over a century. Just after sunrise on a sunny winter's day, a 20-meter, 13,000-ton asteroid struck the atmosphere over ...
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2023
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Türkiye and Syria are reeling from one of the worst earthquakes to strike the region in almost a century. Tens of thousands of people have been killed with many more injured in this tragedy.
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2023
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A grand odyssey of exploration is about to begin. Humankind's next bold mission to the outer solar system, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is poised to explore giant planet Jupiter and its largest moons. These intriguing ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2023
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Right in the middle of this image, nestled among a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies, lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II. If you cannot quite distinguish the clump of faint ...
Astronomy
Feb 10, 2023
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ESA's geology training course PANGAEA has come of age with the publication of a paper in Acta Astronautica that describes the quest for designing the best possible geology training for the next astronauts to walk on the surface ...
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2023
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Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) today makes its closest approach to Earth before likely leaving our solar system forever. At billions of years old and not seen since Neanderthals roamed, the green comet continues to intrigue as it ...
Astronomy
Feb 1, 2023
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The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System (ADEO) breaking sail was successfully deployed from the ION satellite carrier in late December 2022. A sail area of 3.6 square meters was autonomously deployed from an impressively ...
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2023
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Mars displays fascinating geology everywhere you look—and nowhere is this more true than in the fractured, wrinkled ground seen in this image from ESA's Mars Express.
Planetary Sciences
Jan 31, 2023
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