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Aurora's origins
| | | | Exploring space
| | Two 'Moon workers' of the future LUNOX (Lunar Oxygen) company confer in one of the sites where besides oxygen the elements iron, aluminium, magnesium and titanium are mined. Courtesy of : Pat Rawlings/SAIC/NASA JSC -- Mark Dowman and Mike Stovall/Eagle Engineering, Inc./NASA JSC -- Clementine/BMDO/NSSDC -- LunaCorp/Robotics Institute | |  |  | |
| | | | Advanced technology
| Instruments on the Mars Express orbiter:
1. MARSIS: ground penetrating radar to locate, for example, water and ice
2. HRSC: providing accurate and detailed images of the surface and atmosphere
3. OMEGA: mapping the surface composition of Mars
4. SPICAM: finding out why the Martian
atmosphere is so oxidising
5. PFS: studying the composition of the atmosphere
6. ASPERA: looking at how the solar wind erodes the Martian atmosphere
7. MaRS (no corresponding hardware): using data transmission for science
8. Beagle 2: searching for evidence of past or present life.
Credits: ESA 2001/Illustration by Medialab | | | | |
| | | | International cooperation
| Frank De Winne on board the ISS doing acrobatics in space during the Odissea mission.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | Industry
| Artist's drawing of the mobile pressurized laboratory including EVA airlock, galley, hygiene and waste management facilities, surface exit, robotic arm and external mounted science facility (glove box). Can be configured as a safe haven for six astronauts.
Credits: ESA/Active Design - December 2002 | | | | |
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