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Image: Moons of the giant planets To source

Image: New physical probes of the early Universe To source

ESA’s large-class science missions for the timeframe 2035-2050 will focus on moons of the giant Solar System planets, temperate exoplanets or the galactic ecosystem, and new physical probes of the early Universe. To source

EnVision will be ESA’s next Venus orbiter, providing a holistic view of the planet from its inner core to upper atmosphere to determine how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently. To source

Video: 00:00:43 Rotating Juice in the clean room at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands before transfer in the Large Space Simulator. Juice will undergo environmental testing in ESTEC’s Large Space Simulator to replicate the extreme heating and cooling cycles that the spacecraft will experience on its way to Jupiter. Once in the Jovian system […]

Video: 03:32:49 For the first time in more than three years, on 26 May 2021, a total lunar eclipse coincided with a supermoon. The ‘super blood moon’ was unfortunately only visible across Australia and parts of the US and East Asia. But ESA, in cooperation with the Australian science agency, CSIRO, brought this celestial treat […]

Lunar Eclipse Webcast 26 May 11:30 CEST start To source

Video: 00:00:58 The beauty shot video of the international James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) showing off the telescope’s primary mirror. The world’s most powerful space science telescope has opened its primary mirror for the last time on Earth. As part of Webb’s final tests, the 6.5 meter (21 feet 4 inch) mirror was commanded to […]

Computer simulations show that the miniature solar flares nicknamed ‘campfires’, discovered last year by ESA’s Solar Orbiter, are likely driven by a process that may contribute significantly to the heating of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona. If confirmed by further observations this adds a key piece to the puzzle of what heats the solar […]

Image: When clouds collide To source

Image: Where did Mars’ water go? To source

Image: ExoMars orbiter images Perseverance landing site (labelled) To source

Image: ExoMars orbiter images Perseverance landing site To source