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Promising early tests for variable-thrust landing engine

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Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion.

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Drop it like it’s hot: Space Rider model falls gracefully

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Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake

Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA’s Mars Express.

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Rosetta and beyond: tales of a mission that left a mark

Exactly ten years on since Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, we dig into how the intrepid explorer has transformed our knowledge of comets, revealed some crucial pieces in the Solar System jigsaw puzzle, and shaped how we develop new missions.

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Sławosz Uznański from Poland will fly to International Space Station on fourth Axiom Space mission

Polish project astronaut Sławosz Uznański is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).

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Detecting nitrogen dioxide from power plants with Sentinel-2

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide is a harmful pollutant with significant impacts on air quality, climate and the biosphere. Although satellites have mapped nitrogen dioxide concentrations since the 1990s, their resolution was generally too coarse to pinpoint individual sources like power plants.

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Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024

Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024

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Euclid Galaxy Zoo – help us classify the shapes of galaxies

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Space propulsion-as-a-service gets a Boost!

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Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target asteroids have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents studies of the Didymos asteroid and its Dimorphos moon, based on the roughly five and a half minutes of close-range footage returned by NASA’s DART spacecraft before it impacted the latter body – along with post-impact images from the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube.

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Ariane 6: post-launch update

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Juice returns for a lunar-Earth flyby

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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is coming back to Earth.

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ESA blasts off at Gamescom

Calling all space dreamers and game developers! ESA is back at Gamescom, the world's biggest video game event, kicking off in Cologne from 21 to 25 August. Our stand is in the careers area of Koelnmesse in Hall 10.2, so buckle up for a galaxy of opportunities!

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Week in images: 22-26 July 2024

Week in images: 22-26 July 2024

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FIA 2024 - Day 5

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From Concordia to the Moon

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Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even the International Space Station. Every year, ESA sponsors a medical doctor to spend a year, or "winterover," at Concordia station. This year, our medical doctor is Jessica Kehala Studer, who is seen in this picture gazing at the Moon and the vast expanse of Antarctica. Around May, the Sun dips below the horizon for the last time, and the crew experiences four months of total darkness, with temperatures dropping to –80°C in winter. 

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Earth from Space: Paris in focus

Image: This striking high-resolution image offers an in-depth view of central Paris, allowing you to explore and zoom into the city’s most captivating areas in exceptional detail.

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How Europe’s biggest rocket came to be: Ariane 6 montage

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The first half of 2024 saw hundreds of people across Europe building, cajoling, shipping, lowering, integrating, securing and protecting the precious pieces and parts that came together to create Ariane 6 – Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket.

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FIA 2024 - Day 4

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Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know LINK

Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know

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