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The Fingertip Galaxy: Reflecting Euclid in art

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“After Euclid’s lifetime, it will just be floating in space. What if future beings found Euclid? How would they know anything about the humanity of the people?” – Tom Kitching, lead scientist of Euclid’s VIS instrument.

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Cosmic manatee accelerates particles from head

Image: Cosmic manatee accelerates particles from head

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Week in images: 27 June - 1 July 2022

Week in images: 27 June - 1 July 2022

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Earth from Space: Patagonia

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this impressive, wide-angled view of Patagonia at the southern end of South America, as well as the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

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The quarterly ESA Impact is out now!

The quarterly ESA Impact is out now!

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Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Bangladesh flood

Image: Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Bangladesh flood

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Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania

Image: Deep within the Sahara Desert lies one of the best-preserved craters on Earth. On Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the almost-perfectly circular Tenoumer Crater in Mauritania.

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ESA counts down to Asteroid Day with news on riskiest asteroid

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EGNOS technology for Africa – ESA signs deal with ASECNA

European technology that allows satellite navigation signals to safely guide aircraft down for landing in the majority of Europe’s airports will now be put to use across Africa and the Indian Ocean. ASECNA, the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, and ESA today signed an agreement to deploy a Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS) across a service region of more than 16.5 million sq. km, one and a half times the size of Europe’s coverage area.

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Impact in 2052 ruled out as ESA counts down to Asteroid Day

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One ESA: an interactive journey around ESA sites!

We are a huge organisation of 5000+ people operating at nine different locations. How do we work together to achieve our goals and fly our missions?

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Contract secures design for ESA’s FORUM satellite

ESA has awarded a contract worth €160 million to Airbus in the UK to build the Earth Explorer FORUM satellite. This exciting new mission will yield unique insight into the planet’s radiation budget and how it is controlled – thereby filling in a critical missing piece of the climate jigsaw.

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BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby

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A beautiful sequence of 56 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission as the spacecraft made its second close flyby of its destination planet Mercury on 23 June 2022.

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Po River dries up

Image: The Po River, the longest river in Italy, is hitting record low water levels after months without heavy rainfall. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 animation reveals how the river has significantly shrunk between June 2020 and June 2022.

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ILA 2022 in images

Photo highlights from the ‘Space for Earth’ space pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show, from 22 to 26 .June 2022.

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Week in images: 20-24 June 2022

Week in images: 20-24 June 2022

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Second helpings of Mercury

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards Mercury orbit in 2025. 

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Earth from Space: Lake Balkhash

Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central Asia, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

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ESA – made of people

Image: ESA – made of people

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This month in orbit: May’s space science

Vital research into health, climate, materials and more continues with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and colleagues aboard the Space Station this month. Get up to date with what was on their schedule with May’s space science summary.

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Lunar science stirring on Mount Etna

Image: Lunar science stirring on Mount Etna

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