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    minigallery: The Enigma of life, images and texts

    This is a collection of images and texts to describe how life appeared on Earth and how ESA missions are investigating whether life exists on the other planets in the Solar System and beyond.

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    Our Solar System, artist's view
    Primitive Earth, artist's view
    Water ice in the Vastitas Borealis crater, Mars
    SOHO image of the Sun
    The Moon
    Lunar craters, SMART-1
    BepiColombo, artist's view
    Dark vortex, South Pole of Venus
    The Red Planet
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