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Fabrizio and Germano keeping track of sizes
Credits ESA/C. Corongiu
With ESA’s EarthCARE satellite and four measuring instruments all working extremely well and fully commissioned, the mission’s ‘first level’ data stream is now freely available. As an example, Level-1 data acquired on 9 January 2025 by the satellite’s atmospheric lidar have been used to show the smoke layer from the current Los Angeles wildfire disaster, which is being carried over the Pacific Ocean by strong winds.
Credits: ESA
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Images from ESA's ESOC mission control centre, Darmstadt, Germany, during the arrival of the ExoMars/TGO orbiter and the Schiaparelli test lander. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
ESA Kiruna station Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
ESA's Kiruna station, near Salmijärvi, Kiruna, Sweden, tracks Cryosat, Integral, the Sentinels and Swarm. Details: www.esa.int/kiruna Credit: ESA - CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
VMC Image acquired on 22-10-2018 at 07:39:21 at an altitude of 9783.03 km above Mars, on Mars Express orbit number 18733. Image #9 out of 48 from this observation.
Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The East Side Access project is connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. This photo from June 21, 2011, shows construction of the caverns that will house the new platforms at Grand Central. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The European Space Agency has chosen 17 new astronaut candidates from more than 22 500 applicants from across its Member States. In this new 2022 class of ESA astronauts are five career astronauts, 11 members of an astronaut reserve and one astronaut with a disability.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher introduced the members of the 2022 ESA astronaut class, the first new recruits in 13 years, today at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, France, shortly after the ESA Council at Ministerial level ended.
The Art and Science Exhibition Part III consists of a scientific educational part showing some of the most beautiful satellite images of the Earth, curated by ESA, along with some interactive terminals providing the scientific background information. Several examples of artistic works with satellite imaging and historical references to the field comprise the second part of this exhibition.
This satellite image is also part of the Spaceship Earth Exhibition (2015) at Ars Electronica Center, Linz.
credit: Eyjafjallajoekull Ash Plume, Iceland / Envisat (MERIS), ESA
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer trains on European experiment to be conducted on the International Space Station at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
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Credit: ESA-C.Diener
On 7 October 2018 we opened the doors of ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, and welcomed more than 7600 people on a day full of activities including meet-and-greet with astronauts, tours around our test rooms, learning about the science in science fiction, and about the activities ESA does in all its establishments around Europe and beyond.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
East Side Access tunnel boring machine launch March 18, 2011. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
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ESA's Hera spacecraft sets off for the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, 2024 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Since 1968, the Italian town of Frascati, 20 kilometres south of Rome, has been the European Centre for Satellite Earth Observation (ESRIN) of the European Space Agency (ESA). A new centre, the ESA "Ï• Experience", is opening up exciting insights into modern Earth observation, its research projects and findings on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary. This newly opened interactive world of experience was designed by Ars Electronica Solutions together with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the ESA team.
Credit: Ars Electronica / Harald Moser
The East Side Access project is connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. This photo from June 21, 2011, shows construction of the caverns that will house an escalator bank to the new platforms at Grand Central. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Emergency scen class Ex 40 & 41 crews building 9.NASA Commander Barry Wilmore, Flight Engineer Terry Virts, Russian Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov, Elena Serova, Alexander Samokutyaev, ESA Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti.
Mars’s Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) consists of a series of wind-sculpted deposits measuring hundreds of kilometres across and several kilometres high. Found at the boundary between Mars’s highlands and lowlands, the features are possibly the biggest single source of dust on Mars, and one of the most extensive deposits on the planet.
But this dry layer seems to hide a secret. A team of researchers used Mars Express radar data to peer below the surface. What they found was a top layer of dust that covers what seems to be a thick layer of deposits rich in water ice. This map shows the estimated amount of ice within the mounds that form the MFF, indicating that the ice-rich deposits are up to 3000 m thick.
The researchers estimate that the layer of dry material (likely dust or volcanic ash) covering the ice is 300–600 m thick. This map shows the ice thickness if we assume that the dust is 300 m thick. In this case, the total volume of water ice contained within the MFF deposits would be 400 000 km3, or if it melted, enough to cover Mars in an ocean of water 2.7 m deep.
If the dust layer is instead 600 m thick, the water ice layer would be thinner, and the total volume of water ice contained within the MFF deposits would be 220 000 km3, or if it melted, enough to cover Mars in an ocean of water 1.5 m deep.
[Image description: Grey planetary surface with coloured blobs. The blobs are blue around the outside, then go to green, yellow, orange, red then white towards the centre. A scale at the bottom reads 'Potential Ice Thickness' and runs from 0 m (dark blue) to 3000 m (red-white)]
Credits: Planetary Science Institute/Smithsonian Institution
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
VMC Image acquired on 19-02-2023 at 03:58:26 at an altitude of 8858.07 km above Mars, on Mars Express orbit number 24166. Image #39 out of 39 from this observation.
Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The progress of the East Side Access construction in Long Island City, Queens, as of December 20, 2012.
This photo shows work underway on one of the most challenging parts of the entire project: Excavating a tunnel under Northern Boulevard, while simultaneously supporting the overhead roadway, the overhead underground subway (E/M/R), and the elevated subway (N/Q).
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The European Researcher's Night took place on 25 September 2015 at ESA-ESRIN.
Credits: ESA-Luca Della Valle
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ESA’s EarthCARE satellite was launched on 29 May 2024. It has already returned images from its cloud profiling radar and from its broadband radiometer. Now, it has also delivered the first images from its multispectral imager, showcasing various types of clouds and cloud temperatures worldwide. This instrument is set to add valuable context to the data from EarthCARE’s other instruments.
The multispectral imager comprises two cameras: one imaging in the visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared (VIS-NIR-SWIR) parts of the of the electromagnetic spectrum and one in the thermal-infrared (TIR). Images captured with these different spectral bands will allow scientists to differentiate between various cloud types, aerosols and Earth’s surface.
This image is from 16 July and shows part of mid-western and southern US. The bottom of the image shows that northern Arkansas is hot and cloud-free. Both images then feature part of a frontal system, with the thermal-infrared image highlighting cold high clouds in blue over southern Missouri. The middle of both images show fewer clouds north of the frontal system. The thermal-infrared image shows low warm clouds at the top of the image.
Credits: ESA
The East Side Access project is connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. This photo from June 21, 2011, shows construction of the caverns that will house the new platforms at Grand Central. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The progress of the East Side Access construction in Long Island City, Queens, as of December 20, 2012.
This photo shows work underway on one of the most challenging parts of the entire project: Excavating a tunnel under Northern Boulevard, while simultaneously supporting the overhead roadway, the overhead underground subway (E/M/R), and the elevated subway (N/Q).
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet getting ready to enter the pool during spacewalk training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, USA.
Training underwater on a life-size mockup of the Space Station is one way astronauts prepare for their mission. Floating underwater is one of the best ways train on Earth for weightlessness.
Credits: NASA/ESA–J. Blair