Hera in the doghouse
Like a pet being put in its kennel, ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence was placed back in its transport container for the latest phase in its test campaign.The spacecraft is not due ...
Countdown to Hera: launch campaign...
ESA's Hera mission is due to launch in October this year on a quest to survey the Didymos binary asteroid system and study the results of the first-ever test of asteroid deflection.The spacecraft ...
Tracking Ariane 6 as it soars over...
A network of ground stations around the world, including two owned by ESA, will track the debut flight of Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket. They will monitor key phases of the flight and gather telemetry ...
Summer solstice 2024
Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere today 20 June, marking the longest day of the year. The summer solstice, which is when the Sun reaches the most northerly point in the sky, is ...
Earth from Space: Adams Bridge
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Adam's Bridge, a chain of shoals linking India and Sri Lanka.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn ...
New satellite to show how AI advances...
Artificial intelligence technologies have achieved remarkable successes and continue to show their value as backbones in scientific research and real-world applications.ESA's new ?sat-2 mission, ...
Saharan dust over the Strait of Messina
These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images show two different views of the Strait of Messina in Italy, before and after a major dust storm from the Sahara desert passed over the area.On the left, the image ...
Save the date: ESAs Living Planet...
Save the date for ESA's next Living Planet Symposium, set for 23?27 June 2025 at the Austria Center Vienna. Held every three years, this premier Earth observation conference continues to expand in ...
A first: EarthCARE reveals inner...
Less than a month after it was launched, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has returned the first image from one of its instruments ? an image that, for the first time from space, unveils the internal ...
Earth from Space: Meteor Crater
Ahead of Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.Around ...
