Image: The Halloween Crack in Antarctica
Marking Halloween, we bring you this recent Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of the Halloween Crack in Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2022
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Mini-radar for asteroid CubeSat
This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space—and the very first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid. Its target? The Dimorphos asteroid, which on the night of 26 September ...
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2022
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A close encounter with a mysterious moon
In 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered two small moons circling the planet Mars, later named Phobos and Deimos after the Greek for "fear" and "panic."
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2022
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Haunting portrait: Webb reveals dust and structure in pillars of creation
Why does mid-infrared light evoke such a somber, chilling mood in Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) image? Interstellar dust cloaks the scene. And while mid-infrared light specializes in detailing where dust is, the stars ...
Astronomy
Oct 28, 2022
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Video: Solar Orbiter's unprecedented view of the quiet corona
The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission has experienced its second close encounter with the sun. It is delivering more stunning data, and at higher resolution than ever before.
Astronomy
Oct 27, 2022
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ESA plans for low-orbiting navigation satellites
Satellite navigation is headed closer to users. ESA's Navigation Directorate is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometers up in space, supplementing Europe's ...
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2022
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Craters and cracks on Mars' Terra Sirenum region
This complex region of craters and fractures in the Terra Sirenum region highlights the varied history of Mars. The image above was taken by ESA's Mars Express on 5 April 2022.
Planetary Sciences
Oct 26, 2022
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Shadow hunters capture Didymos asteroid eclipsing stars
After months of effort, astronomers have succeeded in capturing the momentary shadow cast by the Didymos asteroid, from tens of million kilometers away as it passed in front of far-distant stars—a feat of observation only ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2022
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Europe's all-new weather satellite arrives at launch site
After a two-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the ship transporting the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite docked at Pariacabo in French Guiana and the precious cargo unloaded. Now safe and sound in one of the ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 18, 2022
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Seeing how a spacecraft dies
This simulation of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) space truck reentering Earth's atmosphere starts by representing the surrounding of the spacecraft as a three-dimensional cloud of interconnected points, a so-called ...
Space Exploration
Oct 14, 2022
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