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The Mars Express spacecraft after release of the Beagle 2 lander

The Aurora Programme will explore the solar system

Penumbral eclipse

Total solar eclipse in 1999

Perseid meteor in 1997

Different views of a Leonid fireball in 1966

Old picture shows a meteor shower on 13 November 1833

Hubble's third-generation rigid solar array tested at ESTEC

Technicians successfully mount Hubble's new solar array

Leonid-watcher checks his camera

Leonid meteor streaks through the sky

Geminid meteor recorded on 14 December 2001 at 05h55m UT

Did the main ingredients for life come from outer space?

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off at the beginning of Hubble Servicing Mission SM3B

Columbia space shuttle with Hubble solar arrays on board lifts off

One of Hubble's solar arrays, with Earth visible below

In this cosmic water factory, hydrogen and oxygen mix in star-forming clouds

Leonid-watcher with equipment in Australia

NASA systems engineer

NASA engineers inspect solar cells on Hubble's newly unfolded solar wing

Inside the test room, scientists fully extend Hubble's solar array

Hubble technician connects computers for pre-test verification

Technician suits up before entering the clean room

Technicians lift Hubble's new solar arrays

Technicians gently guide Hubble's solar arrays onto the pedestal

Hubble Space Telescope's new solar array arrives in The Netherlands

Hubble engineers and technicians begin unbagging the solar array's mast

Transporting Hubble solar arrays

Packing away Hubble's solar arrays in protective crating

Mr H.G. Thoma, ESA Transportation and Storage Officer

Scientist laces Hubble's thermal blankets

Scientists and Hubble's new solar arrays

Titan IVB rocket, with Cassini-Huygens on board, lifts off

Technicians fit Huygens to Cassini before starting tests

Titan IVB with Cassini-Huygens on board blasts off from Cape Canaveral

Huygens descends on Titan, with Saturn in the background

Technicians attach a CD-ROM to the Huygens probe

Technicians join Huygens to Cassini

Technicians join the Huygens probe to the Cassini orbiter

Cross-sectional view of the Huygens probe

Instruments inside Huygens

Instruments inside Huygens

Technicians fit back cover on the Huygens probe

Mechanical/structural models of Cassini-Huygens

Mechanical/structural model of Cassini-Huygens

Parachute test to ensure effective landings

Titan's murky atmosphere, with Cassini-Huygens visible

Landers need heat shields during reentry

Saturn, as seen from Titan, with Cassini just visible

Cassini-Huygens exhibition wall 1

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