19 November 2009 The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the role these two key variables play in regulating Earth’s water cycle.
18 November 2009 A series of well-illuminated images of the Red Planet acquired today by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board Mars Express from an altitude of 6379 km to 8284 km above the surface. These images were published online less than 4 hours after acquisition at Mars.
16 November 2009 Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
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