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The large 25 km-diameter crater in the foreground of this High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) perspective view has excavated rocks which have been altered by groundwater in the crust before the impact occurred. Using OMEGA (Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer) on ESA’s Mars Express and CRISM (Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), scientists have identified hydrated minerals in the central mound of the crater, on the crater walls and on the large ejecta blanket around the crater. Hydrated minerals were found in 175 locations associated with other nearby craters in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars.
For further information please visit: www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMKT91VW3H_index_0.html
Credits: Mars Express HRSC, ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum); NASA/MOLA Science Team; D. Loizeau et al.
At the invitation of ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attended the ESA Council at ESA’s establishment ESTEC in the Netherlands on 15 June 2022.
ESA is currently working with NASA on many areas, from science such as the James Webb Space Telescope to exploration such as Mars Sample Return, Artemis and the International Space Station, to Earth observation.
At the ESA Council, a framework agreement between ESA and NASA for a strategic partnership in Earth System Science was signed, as well as a memorandum of understanding between ESA and NASA on the Lunar Pathfinder mission.
Credits: ESA-S.Corvaja
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 Several examples of artistic works with satellite imaging and historical references to the field comprise the second part of this exhibition.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: Namib / Satellite: Kompsat-2, KARI/ESA
This graphic summarises significant measurement attempts of methane at Mars. Reports of methane have been made by Earth-based telescopes, ESA’s Mars Express from orbit around Mars, and NASA’s Curiosity located on the surface at Gale Crater; they have also reported measurement attempts with no or very little methane detected. More recently, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter reported an absence of methane, and provided a very low upper limit.
In order to reconcile the range of results, which show variations in both time and location, scientists have to understand better the different processes acting to create and destroy methane.
Credits: ESA
After years of planning and countless hours of simulations, mission teams at ESA’s control centre in Germany are ready to take flight on the long and complex journey to Mercury.
Years of planning and preparation have lead to this moment, and teams at ESOC have been working closely with teams across the Agency, as well as the many colleagues at scientific institutions, in European industry, and of course our mission partners at the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).
BepiColombo — Europe’s first-ever mission to the innermost planet of our Solar System — will take seven years, travel nine billion km, and will use nine planetary flybys to reach its volatile destination, and it could not be in more experienced hands.
After completing months of simulations, culminating in the the final ‘dress-rehearsal’ on Wednesday, mission teams came together for the pre-launch briefing to confirm the status of all ground systems, ground stations and team readiness.
All systems are GO for launch at ESOC — Europe’s gateway to space.
Live coverage starts at 03:15 CEST, Saturday 20 October, at esa.int/live.
Credits: ESA
The town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan is seen from the bus carrying team members from NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, and Russian Search and Recovery Forces as they arrive in advance of the landing of Expedition 57 crew members Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Auñón-Chancellor, Gerst, and Prokopyev are returning after 197 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 56 and 57 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Another stunning view of our Earth from ESA astronaut, André Kuipers, onboard the ISS.
André is on the orbital outpost for ESA's long duration mission, PromISSe. For further information about his mission, and for more stunning photographs, please visit: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/PromISSe/index.html
Credits: ESA/NASA
ESA Astronauten mit Trainer
Alexander Gerst (D), Timothy Peake (UK),
Samantha Cristoforetti (I),
Thomas Pesquet (F),
Luca Parmitano
The journey of ESA's second European Service Module, from creation to launch on Artemis II.
Orion is NASA’s next spacecraft to send humans into space and part of the Artemis programme. It is designed to send astronauts farther into space than ever before, beyond the Moon and to the lunar Gateway.
ESA has designed and is overseeing the development of Orion’s service module, the part of the spacecraft that supplies air, electricity and propulsion. Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
The Orion spacecraft is built by NASA with ESA providing the service module. The arrangement stems from the international partnership for the International Space Station. NASA’s decision to cooperate with ESA on a critical element for the mission is a strong sign of trust and confidence in ESA’s capabilities.
More than 20 companies around Europe are now building the European Service Modules as NASA works on Orion and the Space Launch System.
Learn more about Orion and Europe’s involvement here. Follow the latest updates via the Orion blog.
Credits: ESA-A. Brancaccio
ESA's Kiruna station supports CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel 1A. It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Image credit: ESA - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Technology image of the week:
ESA Director General Jan Woerner joined the Agency’s Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality at a special award ceremony for ESA’s inventors.
The ceremony took place at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands on 31 May, recognising inventors for their contributions during the past two years, leading to 13 patents.
“It is important to recognise the outstanding results of our ESA staff and contractors,” commented the Director General. “Through their creative work they help to maintain Europe’s competitiveness in the space industry.
“Furthermore, as ambassadors of their ideas, ESA’s inventors support the transfer of these patented technologies to completely new sectors, thereby demonstrating the benefit of space technology for society as a whole.”
In total, ESA’s patent portfolio consists of around 300 patented inventions and about 150 applications in progress, across a diverse variety of technical sectors. This portfolio is managed by the Agency’s Technology Transfer Programme Office, working to find terrestrial uses for advanced space technology.
Among the inventions awarded this time was a compression algorithm specially designed by David Evans to serve data housekeeping aboard satellites: it operates so rapidly that it can compress individual data packets as they are generated.
Credit: 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
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Bernard Foing, ESA Senior Scientist, during the ESA Grand Challenge at 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), at the Exhibition and Conference Centre in Bremen.
Credits: ESA - Philippe Sebirot
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during an official ESA portrait session ahead of her Minerva mission to the International Space Station.
Credit: ESA-A.Conigli
Un fin de semana en una casita en el río...Donde no había nada más para fotografiar que justamente el río, árboles y niños, que ya me miraban con cara de pocos amigos...
Aún no llegó la primavera a Argentina, por lo tanto, no había más flores que este pequeño ramito al lado de un árbol y otra flor que encontré abandonada por ahí, en una mini selva...
Soy horrible fotografiando paisajes, de todas maneras, saqué muchas fotos intentando practicar un poco y conocer un poquito más mi cámara ( si me animo subo alguna).
Quería incluir un poco de color a las fotos y todo lo que encontré para ello, fue una manzana que rescaté de las "garras" de los niños que arrasaban con todo.
Me aferré a ella como la [ ARDILLA DE LA ERA DEL HIELO A SU BELLOTA ] y la usé para hacer esta serie de fotos, que intentan ser algo así como una historieta, donde la protagonista es la esa maldita manzana y la actríz secundaria es una pequeña linternita que uso como lúz de lectura
Locuras mías de un fin de semana "campestre", intentando sobrevivir sin mi notebook :P
CONTINUARÁ...
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Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
View of Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, on the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, 4 December 2024.
Sentinel-1C is the third Sentinel-1 satellite to be launched as part of Europe’s Copernicus programme. It will continue the critical task of delivering radar imagery for a wide range of services, applications and science – all of which benefit society.
Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. Vega-C can launch about 2300 kg in a reference 700 km-polar orbit. Using a new range of payload carriers, Vega-C can accommodate a mix of cargo shapes and sizes, ranging from CubeSats to a large single payload.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
Cerrar el visillo de los ojos, hacer un crucero con las yemas por el mar herbáceo, embadurnarse de las gotas de rocío, el tacto rugoso y fresco de la naturaleza... Lee más en: unafotomilpalabras.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/esaspequenasc...
La cuestión seria es que estamos acabando el mes de noviembre y la cosa no está boyante, que digamos... Aunque a fuerza de ser sincero uno ya no sabe si achacar la escasez a los débiles tráficos o a la persona que debería fotografiarlos. Puesto en cifras, y para que se me entienda, dos mercantes en 25 días...
Cuando la veteranía es un grado, o un saco de patatas según se mire, la secuencia es aferrarse a la ley del mínimo esfuerzo y máxima comodidad. Te asignas un día de la semana, aguardas y cuando llega asomas la patita por entre las sábanas y compruebas que hace frío. Y piensas que con lo bien que se está en la camita va a salir a vía Rita la cantaora... Y cuando hace calor pasas porque temes que se derrita el poco seso que te queda.
Sea como fuere dejas que toda la noche vayan pasando pájaros sin que ello te inmute.
Puede que todo ello sea la razón de la insistente subida de churrifotos a mi galería. Sin embargo no es menos cierto que quiero demostrar que aún mantengo, de alguna forma, la ilusión de décadas pasadas. Por eso, y entre retazos del ayer, incorporo algo actual dentro de la panoplia de fotos.
Lo de siempre. Alrededor de las ocho abro los ojos, compruebo que la luz entra por entre la rendijas de la persiana y el pensamiento de horas anteriores se disipa. Se está tan bien bajo la colcha... Pero no es cuestión de permanecer agazapado hasta la hora de comer, así que a media mañana trinco el bonobús y me acerco hasta este punto. De lo que se trata es de quitarse el mono de encima, evidentemente.
De camino al punto, de repente, me invade la zozobra. "Hoy es viernes y están programados paros tanto en Renfe como en Adif. Buena me espera..." A pesar de ello quiero pasar algo más de una hora y ver lo que se cuece. Y se coció este largo portaautomóviles cargado de Kuga encaminándose a Ford. Oye, y agradecido porque no es demasiado común ver uno de estos puro de cabo a rabo; ya sabéis que lo normal es que vayan en forma de mixtos junto a los azules y los MC.
Total, que para qué más. Recojo los bártulos y a casa de nuevo, dispuesto a que me den de comer y luego dormir la siesta... Por Dios!!, no iban a ser todo trenes...
Nazaret (Valencia)
The 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2022), taking place from 18 to 22 September at the Paris Convention Centre in Paris, France. A week of lively interactions awaits the world space community, this year under the theme 'Space for @ll'. The congress will open its doors to the general public on 21 September.
Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
Expedition 52 flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, top, flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), middle, and flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, bottom, wave farewell prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-05 rocket for launch, Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli will spend the next four and a half months living and working aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
As part of the East Side Access megaproject, the MTA is building a new concourse for the Long Island Rail Road under Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows progress as of October 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
FC Lomalyly goalkeeper Esa Mikkonen dives into the deep mud to make a save in the men's semi-final against FC Nicky On The Butt. He was the match-winner in an eight goal penalty shoot-out. The final day of the 12th Annual Swamp Soccer World Cup in Ukkohalla, Finland, featuring 340 teams and over 5,000 competitors, 20 July 2008.
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Expedition 52/53 crew member and ESA astronaut Paulo Nespoli participates in training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
In July 2015 Paolo was assigned a third spaceflight as part of Expeditions 52 and 53 to the International Space Station. He will be launched on a Soyuz vehicle in May 2017 on a five-month mission. The latest mission is part of a barter agreement between NASA and Italy’s ASI space agency involving ESA astronauts.
Credit: NASA/James Blair
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
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
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On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (middle) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (top) being arranged in their launch configuration together with the Mercury Transfer Module (bottom) in a so-called ‘fit-check’. While the MPO and MMO are now integrated, the real integration of the MTM will take place after propellants have been added to the modules.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique video du CSG – J. Odang