Week in images: 24-28 February 2025 Discover our week through the lens To source
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Mission accomplished for Integral, ESA’s gamma-ray telescope
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Earth from Space: Maha Kumbh Mela festival, India
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world’s largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India. To source
Webb visits a star-forming spiral
Image: Webb visits a star-forming spiral To source
Watch live: Ariane 6 second flight
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Metal made in space lands on Earth
Image: The first metal 3D part ever created on orbit has landed on Earth. The sample was produced in ESA’s Metal 3D Printer on the International Space Station. Now, it’s on Earth for the first time, at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands (ESTEC). The printer, developed by Airbus and its partners, was installed in […]
Drilling into Mars
Video: 00:03:06 The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will drill deeper than any other mission has ever attempted on the Red Planet. The third episode in the series shows how the rover will extract, collect and analyse martian samples in a high-fidelity simulation. Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up […]
Have we been wrong about why Mars is red?
The Red Planet’s iconic rusty dust has a much wetter history than previously assumed, find scientists combining European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft data with new laboratory experiments on replica Mars dust. The results suggest that Mars rusted early in the planet’s ancient past, when liquid water was more widespread. To source
Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk
The latest analysis from the European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Defence Office has reduced the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 might impact Earth in 2032 to 0.001%. To source
Proba-3 stargazing to warm up for corona observations
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission will create artificial solar eclipses in orbit, allowing scientists to study the Sun’s corona for longer periods of time than would be possible during eclipses observed from Earth. To test the functionality of Proba-3’s systems, researchers from the Royal Observatory of Belgium took a snapshot of a star field […]
Vary that thrust: longer hot-fire of rocket engine demonstrator
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Week in images: 17-21 February 2025
Week in images: 17-21 February 2025 Discover our week through the lens To source
ESA and Red Cross partnership brings space technology to disaster management
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC ) have signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to harness space technology for humanitarian assistance worldwide. The partnership will combine ESA’s space expertise with ICRC’s humanitarian reach to develop space-enabled solutions that can help protect and assist communities affected by disasters […]