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MMX from launch to Phobos

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Mars moon lander set to launch on 19 October

13/10/2026 3008 views 20 likes

Solar Orbiter at perihelion – 27 March 2022

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Solar Orbiter tracks origin of mysterious magnetic switchba…

08/10/2026 2470 views 35 likes

The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud as seen by Mars Express

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Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought

07/10/2026 6741 views 75 likes

Smile’s first ultraviolet image shows auroral substorm

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Science begins for Smile

30/09/2026 12080 views 50 likes

Mars Express images combined to produce global Mars in colour

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Happy New Year on Mars

30/09/2026 29869 views 379 likes

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ESA's science fleet of Solar System explorers

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ESA’s science fleet of cosmic observers

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Expedition Sound podcast series

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Science missions

Launch: 2015 Europe’s first mission to Mercury

Europe’s first Red Planet orbiter

Deep space comet rendezvous mission

Launched: 1990 ESA contributed solar arrays and Faint Object Camera

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