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Earth from Space: Peruvian Andes

Video: 00:03:47 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Andes mountains, in southern Peru, are featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission See also Peruvian Andes to download the image. To source

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More ESA Web TV

ESA Web TV, our one-stop-shop for live events from launches to lectures, is now expanded with a second channel. To source

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ESA listens in on black hole mission

European and Russian specialists recently worked together to catch signals from an astrophysical observatory mission, now mapping X-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond, discovering previously unknown supermassive black holes. To source

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SMOS monitoring droughts

Video: 00:03:00 In orbit for more than a decade, ESA’s Earth Explorer satellite SMOS has not only exceeded its planned lifespan, but also surpassed its original scientific goals. Built to demonstrate new technology in space and address gaps in our scientific understanding of how Earth works as a system, this remarkable mission is now also […]

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Name given to asteroid target of ESA’s planetary defence mission

The destination of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence – a tiny asteroid moonlet – has finally received its official name. After years of informal nicknames and temporary designations, the smaller of the Didymos asteroid pair has been formally christened ‘Dimorphos’ by the International Astronomical Union. To source

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Space Station stitch

Image: This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that took place in November 2019. Author, journalist and researcher Lee Brandon-Cremer created this photo by stitching together three images taken by Luca as […]

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