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Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the sixty-sixth edition, we discover why the Kazakh region of Mangistau is sometimes called the ‘treasure peninsula’. ...
This time-lapse shows the final countdown, the rollback of the mobile gantry and the second liftoff of Europe's new, small launcher Vega on 7 May 2013 (CEST) from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Inauguration of ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) on 22 May 2013. This is the second centre to be opened under the Agency’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme after the ...
This Landsat image from 9 September 2010 features the Clearwater Lakes in Canada’s Quebec province. Located to the east of the Hudson Bay, what appears to be two separate lakes is actually a single body of water tha...
ESA's series of Automate Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are the heaviest and most complex spacecraft ever launched into space by an Ariane.
ATV Albert Einstien is set for launch on 5 June and will deliver the most divers...
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is a flight engineer for Expedition 36 and 37.
What does a flight engineer do? Luca explains the multiple roles he will fulfil in space during his six-month Volare mission.
Frank de Winne addresses the participants of the "Sciences à l'École" award event via a recorded message on 15 May at Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano plays one of his own compositions on guitar at ESA’s technical heart ESTEC in The Netherlands.
The song doesn’t have a name yet as playing the guitar is a way to relax for Luca after the...
Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn ventured into space on 11 May 2013 and replaced a pump unit on the outside of the International Space Station that was leaking ammonia
After more than five hours working ...
Galaxy cluster Abell S1077, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
The cluster acts as a magnifying glass, its gravity high enough to warp even th...
The first of ESA's new generation of astronauts, Luca Parmitano from Italy, is about to undergo a long-duration stay onboard the ISS. After what will be the second ever same-day launch and docking to the station in ...
Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue and white area is the dry river bed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close...
Swarm is a constellation of three satellites to measure precisely the magnetic signals from Earth's core, mantle, crust and oceans, as well as the ionosphere and magnetosphere. The resulting models will give insight...
The environment at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Galactic Centre hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about four million times that of our Sun.
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The remote Antarctic base Concordia enjoying its last sunset for almost four months.
ESA sponsors a medical research doctor in Concordia every winter to study the long-term effects of isolation.
The base is 3200...
An artistic look at a coronal mass ejection launched towards Earth. The image is based on data collected by the ESA/NASA SOHO space telescope and comprises an extreme-ultraviolet image of the Sun’s disc (not to scal...
ESA’s Vega VV02 rocket is ready for liftoff, 4 May, 2013 (GMT).
Vega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA’s Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment – VERTA – programme, which aims to demonstra...
ESA astronaut Tim Peake inspecting a Russian Orlan suit during training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow.
The Orlan suit allows astronauts and cosmonauts to venture outside the International Sp...
Neemo aquanauts descending to their base 20 m under the sea. During a 12-day mission, ESA astronaut Tim Peake and six crewmates lived in cramped conditions, performed ‘waterwalks’ and had to solve problems as a team...
Caves are not only humid – they can be very wet.
ESA’s cave training prepares astronauts to work as an international team in real exploration conditions. Sending astronauts underground to survive and explore Sard...
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This fly-through takes the observer on a journey into the famous constellation of Orion, to visit the iconic Horsehead Nebula and its fascinating environment...
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Acquired by ESA's Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background -- the relic radiation from the Big Bang -- w...
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Lunar Lander mission, from launch to landing and exploring the Moon. Lunar Lander is a robotic explorer that will demonstrate key European technologies and c...
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The first Vega, flight VV01, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 13 February 2012, on its way to carry nine satellites into orbit....
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ESA's Mars500 crewmembers Diego Urbina and Romain Charles recorded 15 video diaries from all phases of their simulated mission to Mars, plus hundreds of phot...
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Diego Urbina (@diegou) takes us on tour inside the Mars500 facilities - see how the crew are living and working for the next 17 months in isolation.
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Frank De Winne is answering a few questions on the ISS submitted by Susie Marks from Southern California: * What do you think about moon colonization? * When...
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Frank De Winne is answering a few questions on the ISS submitted by the pupils of Class 7M from the Christian Morgenstern School in Hersching (Germany): Ques...
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Frank De Winne is answering a question on the ISS submitted by George Kristiansen from Upton, England (15 yrs): How are minor modifications to the ISS's orbi...
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Frank De Winne is answering a question on the ISS submitted by Thomas Kern from Germany: What does a typical working day on the ISS look like?
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Frank De Winne is answering a question on the ISS submitted by Paul from Portugal: When you do your EVA (space walk), can you feel the speed (28.000 Km/h) at...
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Frank De Winne is answering a question on the ISS submitted by Herman from Belgium: - How do you wash your clothes in space? - Do you use washing powder to w...
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Frank De Winne is answering a question on the ISS submitted by Cedric from Belgium: - How do you occupy yourself during the 2-day Soyuz journey to the ISS? -...
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