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Tortoise islands

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the Galápagos island chain, inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution To source

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Receding waters

While people in Mozambique face the mammoth task of cleaning up after Cyclone Idai, the blue-purple in this image shows where floodwater is retreating To source

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In a spin

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: new bedrest study tests impact of artificial gravity To source

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Back to the water

In the absolute darkness of caves, rare creatures have returned to living in water to survive. Astronauts looking for life in the underworld during the CAVES training courses discovered a new species of crustaceans that have completed an evolutionary full circle – from water to land, and back to water again.  To source

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Mars calling

An exciting new competition is giving citizens of planet Earth the opportunity to get their voices to Mars in the next phase of the ExoMars programme. The ExoMars rover and platform will launch to the Red Planet in 2020. To source

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A place in the Sun

Space Science Image of the Week: From its vantage point in space, the SOHO solar observatory keeps an eye on our parent star To source

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Satellites key to addressing water scarcity

Satellites key to addressing water scarcity

Today is World Water Day, but with millions of people in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe struggling to cope in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, the notion of water shortages may not be at the forefront of our minds right now. Even so, floods, like we see here, lead to real problems accessing clean water. Whether […]

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Lake Chad

Earth observation image of the week: marking World Water Day, these images show the receding waters of Lake Chad To source

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Earth from Space

For World Water Day, we take a look at Lake Chad at the southern edge of the Sahara, where water supplies are dwindling To source

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Water for life

UN SDG6 targets ‘Water for all by 2030’. For World Water Day we take a look at ways that space can help this global challenge. To source

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