A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people’s hands has won €20 000 in a hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas to combat the coronavirus pandemic. More than 12 000 people from over 100 countries took part in the Global Hack, organised by Estonian-based Garage48 and sponsored […]
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Grand tour of the International Space Station with Drew and Luca
Video: 01:05:04 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan take you on a unique tour of the International Space Station shot in one take with two cameras strapped together. Luca and Drew take it in turns to guide you through the modules and spacecraft docked to the orbital outpost. Starting from the Soyuz […]
Seeing asteroids in the dark
Image: Seeing asteroids in the dark To source
Deserted Venetian lagoon
Image: The Venetian lagoon appears almost deserted following Italy’s lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease – as seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2 To source
Satellites providing clear picture of greenhouse gases
With increasing levels of greenhouse gases causing our climate to change, it is important to understand exactly where these gases come from and how they disperse in the atmosphere. A new dataset, produced by the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative, provides a detailed view of carbon dioxide and methane – two of the most […]
Power glove
Image: Power glove To source
Fun and education for kids and families with Expedition: Home
ESA Education is launching Expedition: Home, a one-stop website for kids and parents to do fun space-based activities and keep learning while at home. To source
UK launches space-based response to Covid-19 pandemic
Some £2.6 million to develop space-enabled technology and services that can strengthen the NHS’s response to coronavirus has been launched today by the UK Space Agency in collaboration with ESA. To source
100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope
Since March 2017, ESA’s NELIOTA project has been regularly looking out for ‘lunar flashes’ on the Moon, to help us better understand the threat posed by small asteroid impacts. The project detects the flash of light produced when an asteroid collides energetically with the lunar surface, and recently recorded its 100th impact. But this time, […]
Time-travelling ESA team explore a virtual Moon
If someone had been watching as Apollo 15’s Falcon Lunar Module headed down beside the Moon’s Appenine mountains in 1971, then this is what they would have seen. ESA researchers, working with UK company Timelab Technologies , are recreating historic missions to the Moon in high-definition 360 virtual reality, as a way of gaining new […]
Week in images: 6-10 April 2020
Week in images: 6-10 April 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source
BepiColombo’s last close-up of Earth during flyby
Image: BepiColombo’s last close-up of Earth during flyby To source
Wheatbelt, Western Australia
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. To source