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Space Science Image of the Week: These filters for the ExoMars rover cameras will give us our science eyes on Mars To source

Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning a sample from the Red Planet. To source

Space cameras to monitor the deployment of satellites and check the health of spacecraft will be developed under the Pioneer-IODA project by Micro-Cameras and Space Exploration based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. To source

Our week through the lens: 20 – 24 May 2019 To source

Celebrating a century of gravity experiments since the first test that proved Einstein’s theory during a solar eclipse on 29 May 1919 To source

In this week’s edition, explore part of western Pakistan with Copernicus Sentinel-2 To source

The International Space Station will host the most precise clocks ever to leave Earth. Accurate to a second in 300 million years the clocks will push the measurement of time to test the limits of the theory of relativity and our understanding of gravity. To source

What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA missions, Athena and LISA, would allow us to study these cosmic clashes and their mysterious aftermath for the first time. To source

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge gives European researchers access to high gravity environments for testing To source

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: A parabolic flight experiment tests perception in altered gravity states To source

Space Science Image of the Week: Black holes provide an extreme cosmic laboratory to test some of the strongest gravity fields in the Universe To source

As the biggest Earth observation conference in the world draws to a close, we take a look back on some of the week’s highlights To source

Every minute, ESA’s Earth observation satellites gather dozens of gigabytes of data about our planet – enough information to fill the pages on a 100-metre long bookshelf. Flying in low-Earth orbits, these spacecraft are continuously taking the pulse of our planet, but it’s teams on the ground at ESA’s Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, that […]