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Webb in full focus

Week in images: 09 - 13 August 2021

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Wildfires ravage Greek island of Evia

Image: Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation on the Greek island of Evia. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows the extent of the burned area in the northern part of the island.

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Cosmonauts on spacewalk begin configuring new European robotic arm outside space station

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A stunning sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on 10 August 2021.

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Ariane 6 upper stage readies for tests at Europe's Spaceport

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Meet bag, bottle and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach.

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BepiColombo skims past Venus

Image: BepiColombo skims past Venus

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Space Olympics (full video)

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The International Space Station Expedition 65 crew recorded themselves on a day off after a long week of work having some weightless fun. From Earth orbit, 400 km above our planet, the crew present the very first Space Olympics.

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Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite

With the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite in orbit since 2015 and the second since 2017, engineers are busy preparing the mission’s follow-on pair to eventually pick up the baton to supply images for a myriad of applications from food security to monitoring the decline of Earth’s ice. Slated for launch at the beginning of 2024, Sentinel-2C has just started a punishing five-month testing programme to ensure that it is fit for its life in space.

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Week in images: 02 - 06 August 2021

Week in images: 02 - 06 August 2021

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The Large Hadron Collider: Inside CERN's atom smasher

Image: Crater trio

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The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade

Forests are not only key to moderating our climate by sequestering atmospheric carbon, but they also create a cooling effect by increasing low-level cloud. A first global assessment using satellite observations has shown that for two-thirds of the world, afforestation increases low-level cloud cover, with the effect being strongest over evergreen needleleaf forest.

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Russia’s forests store more carbon than previously thought

Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world's trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, has produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, and confirms that the vast forested area is storing more carbon than previously estimated.

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Mediterranean continues to bake

Image: This map generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows the temperature of the land surface on 2 August 2021.

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Pulsar Shoots 7-light-year-long Phaser Blast

Image: Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 30 July 2021, this image shows smoke billowing from several fires along the southern coast of Turkey.

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Science in motion for ExoMars twin rover

The first science tests for the ExoMars rover replica kicked off after several weeks of driving tests around the Mars Terrain Simulator at the ALTEC premises in Turin, Italy.

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Rocket Lab to deploy two more BlackSky imaging satellites

Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo are set to make space history with two Venus flybys just 33 hours apart on 9 and 10 August.

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A hundred days of science for Thomas

“I am finding it magical every day, but there is also a lot of routine,” says ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet reflecting on his first 100 days aboard the International Space Station during his second mission. In total, Thomas has logged 296 days in space.

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How Time Flies: Perseverance and Ingenuity Have Been on Mars for a Year

A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched.

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Ariane 5 launches pioneering reprogrammable telecommunications satellite

Europe’s Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum into their planned transfer orbits.

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Eutelsat Quantum liftoff

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The first flight of Ariane 5 in 2021 delivers two satellites including the ESA-backed telecommunications satellite Eutelsat Quantum into space.

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Week in images: 26 - 30 July 2021

Week in images: 26 - 30 July 2021

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SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts arrive in Florida ahead of April 23 launch to ISS (photos)

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Malé – the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives.

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