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African high point

Technology image of the week: the glacier topping Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, imaged by Proba-V minisatellite To source

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Navigation winners

Starting with 515 ideas from 40 countries in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition, 37 winners were announced in Berlin To source

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Knee problems

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Scanning knees to reveal cartilage health in space and on Earth To source

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Climate Cube in Paris

The Climate Cube sitting on the Champs-Elysées focuses on how vital satellites are for understanding climate change, and how space is playing a major role in climate research and climate change mitigation To source

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Saturn and Dione

Space Science Image of the Week: Saturn’s moon Dione, viewed from the Cassini orbiter, crossing the face of its parent planet To source

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Deep blue Red Sea reefs

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of the Red Sea coral reefs, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source

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Sentinel-3A shows off

Before the latest satellite for Copernicus is packed up and shipped to the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia for launch at the end of the year, the media and specialists were given the chance to see this next-generation mission centre-stage in the cleanroom. To source

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Rover school

Technology image of the week: prototype rovers and landers in ESA’s test environment ‘Mars Yard’ To source

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Flash floods in Mangala Valles

Catastrophic flooding triggered by ice melting from the heat of volcanic activity is thought to be responsible for the chaotic scenery depicted in this region of the Mangala Valles channel network. To source

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