Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases of slopes in the mid-latitudes of Mars, and are often associated with gullies. To source
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Revisit #Sentinel2Go
From ESA’s mission control in Germany, watch the replay of the #Sentinel2Go event to celebrate the launch of the second satellite for the Sentinel-2 ‘colour vision’ mission To source
Full launch coverage
Watch the replay of the full Sentinel-2B launch coverage from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 7 March To source
Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched
The ESA-developed Sentinel-2B satellite was launched today, doubling the coverage of high-resolution optical imaging in the Sentinel-2 mission for the European Union Copernicus environmental monitoring system. To source
Liftoff replay
Watch the replay of the Sentinel-2B launch on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana To source
Strange New Nebula Is Missing Its Light Source
MAMMOTH-1, an enormous Lyman-alpha nebula (ELAN) found in a protocluster 10 billion light-years away. The colors and contours indicate surface brightness, and the red arrows show its estimated size. The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of […]
Technicians Secure the Protective Covering Around CYGNUS
In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orbital ATK CYGNUS pressurized cargo module is secured the KAMAG transporter and the crane has been removed. To source
Best Space Books and Sci-Fi: A Space.com Reading List
Space.com’s editors present a reading list for space and sci-fi lovers, as well as children who are interested in astronomy and spaceflight. There are plenty of great books out there about space — so many, in fact, that it can feel a little overwhelming to figure out where to start. So the editors and writers […]
Photons Can Be Cute Too! How ICESat-2 Will Measure Elevation – Animated Short
By Steve Spaleta | March 6, 2017 10:42am ET NASA’s Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) “will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second,” according to the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. They’ve created displayed the process through an animated short starring […]
Occultation of Aldebaran – Astrophotographer Captures Star Peek Out From Behind Moon | Video
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Vega Rocket Launches Europe's Newest Earth 'Sentinel' Satellite
Europe launched its latest Earth-observation satellite tonight (March 6), a spacecraft that will help scientists monitor natural disasters and track land use and water pollution around the globe. The Sentinel-2B satellite lifted off atop a Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport near Kourou, French Guiana, at 8:49 p.m. EST tonight (0149 GMT on March 7). If […]
Blastoff! ESA's Sentinel-2B Satellite Launches Atop Vega Rocket | Video
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Solar Storm Warning: New Tool Could Help Protect Astronauts
This composite image shows a coronal mass ejection — a huge eruption of solar plasma — as seen from two space-based solar observatories and one ground-based instrument. The image in gold is from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft; the image in red is from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory; and the image in blue […]