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Martian ovens

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Cooking martian soil in the search for life. To source

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EU/ESA Space Council

The 9th high-level EU/ESA Space Council, with the theme ‘Space as an enabler’, will take place on Tuesday, 28 May. Watch the press conference live from 11:15 GMT (13:15 CEST) To source

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Mars vision

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

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Europe to Mars – and back!

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

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Einstein's triumph

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

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Clocks, gravity, and the limits of relativity

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

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A unique experiment to explore black holes

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

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Gravity to the max

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

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Zero-G Spiderman

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

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