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Streaks on Mars

Week in images: 19-23 May 2025

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Earth from Space: Alakol, the multicoloured lake

23/05/2025 1678 views 37 likes
Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.
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Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

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Exoplanets explained by Nobel Prize winner (part 1) | The 5…

02/05/2025 1774 views 37 likes
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Press Release N° 24–2024
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ESA and NASA join forces to land Europe’s rover on Mars

ESA and NASA are consolidating their cooperation on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission with an agreement that ensures important US contributions, such as the launch service, elements of the propulsion system needed for landing on Mars and heater units for the Rosalind Franklin rover.
16/05/2024 4792 views
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Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.

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Recipe for a ‘rocky road’ crater soaked in martian history

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Orion on the move

14/05/2025 736 views 33 likes
On 3 May, the fully assembled Orion spacecraft for Artemis II began its journey to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft is shown in transport, with its protective fairing panels clearly visible and proudly bearing the ESA and NASA logos.
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Gaia: Rewriting the story of the Milky Way

28/03/2025 3698 views 75 likes
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Press Release N° 49–2024
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ESA 3D prints first metal part on the International Space Station

The first metal 3D printer in space, a collaboration between ESA and Airbus, has printed its first metal product on the International Space Station, a breakthrough in crew autonomy for future long-duration exploration missions.
06/09/2024 3600 views
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Space science from home: resources for children and adults

A selection of activities to pass time and learn more about space science

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Competitiveness in Space Safety to enable European industry

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Close approach of asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8

08/05/2025 1235 views 19 likes
Close approach of asteroid (612356) 2002 JX8
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Media briefing: Europe's top experts address the growing th…

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James Webb Space Telescope will study asteroid 2024 YR4

Webb will provide a more accurate estimate of the asteroid's size

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Earth from Space: Alakol, the multicoloured lake

23/05/2025 1678 views 37 likes
Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan is featured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.
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Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl
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Media invitation: embark a tall ship for a dive into ocean …

22/05/2025 291 views 11 likes
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ESA’s Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) programme

20/11/2024 2220 views 22 likes
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Press Release N° 1–2024
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Media invitation: Last chance to see the EarthCARE cloud and aerosol satellite in Europe

On 1 February, media representatives have the unique opportunity of seeing  the EarthCARE satellite up close in the cleanroom at Airbus facilities in Friedrichshafen, Germany, before the spacecraft is packed up and shipped to California, USA, for a launch scheduled in May.
11/01/2024 4208 views
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ESA Φ-week 2021
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Making space accessible and developing the technologies for the future

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YPSat-2 Team at ESTEC during the Young Professionals Event 2024
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The Team behind YPSat-2

16/05/2025 560 views 7 likes
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Plato’s dialogue

13/05/2025 603 views 21 likes
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Proba-3 lift-off replay

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Juice approaches Earth
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Blog: Juice's lunar-Earth flyby

Follow for the latest updates as ESA's Jupiter mission swings through the Earth system this summer

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Press Release N° 8–2024
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Call for interest: Ariane 6 launch media events at Europe’s Spaceport

Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending media events at Europe's Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, for the first flight of Europe's new rocket Ariane 6. Journalists wishing to participate in either or both the pre-launch and launch media programmes detailed below, are asked to submit their application via ESA’s media accreditation page by Friday 1 March 2024.
19/02/2024 2515 views
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Video Lesson DVD 1 - Mission 1: Newton in space
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'Newton in space' DVD: a fresh approach to teaching science

15/09/2004 1349 views 3 likes
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Join Europe's astronauts on a journey into space

13/09/2004 2767 views 1 likes
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Scenes were filmed in space by Pedro Duque and Alexander Kaleri
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“Newton in Space” – youngsters from Germany, Ireland and Sp…

09/09/2004 1174 views 1 likes
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Cupola attached to Node-3
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Largest window for space completed

09/09/2004 6604 views 10 likes
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Setting up HEAT in the Microgravity Science Glovebox
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Belated success for DELTA Mission HEAT experiment

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Students ride zero-g roller coaster

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Cupola will be attached to Node 3
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A room with a view for the International Space Station: Com…

30/08/2004 5128 views 7 likes
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The Cardiocog experiment
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Future scientists to attend 'Life in Space' programme

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ATV Jules Verne docked to the ISS
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ISS prepares for ATV arrival with another spacewalk

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Closely monitored
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ESA is looking for female volunteers for a bed-rest study i…

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Frank De Winne, Astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA)
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ESA Astronaut on UNICEF mission to Darfur

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The ISS Heads of Agency met today in Noordwijk
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International Space Station Heads of Agency Meeting

23/07/2004 1091 views 1 likes
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ESA astronaut André Kuipers performs the SUIT experiment, he is assisted by his Russian colleague Gennadi Padalka
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Life and Physical Sciences: new research opportunities

22/07/2004 785 views 1 likes
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Jules Verne: the first flight of the European re-supply spaceship ATV
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'Jules Verne' arrives at ESTEC

20/07/2004 1407 views 1 likes
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Robert Lainé, ESA’s ATV programme manager, presents a model of the ATV Jules Verne to Yuri Semenov, president of RSC-Energia
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Go-ahead given to deliver Russian ATV hardware

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Night of the astronauts

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Cutaway view of Columbus laboratory
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ESA signs 1 billion Euro contract with EADS Space Transport…

09/07/2004 1414 views 1 likes
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ESA Student Parabolic Flight Campaign
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7th Student Parabolic Flight Campaign

28/06/2004 1299 views 1 likes
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ISS Education Kit for pupils aged 12-15
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ISS Education Kit presented to German science teachers

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Dual transit of Venus and ISS on 8 June 2004
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Dual ISS and Venus transit viewed from Slovakia

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'Zero-G' Airbus A300 for parabolic flights
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ESA's 37th Parabolic Flight Campaign underway

08/06/2004 3043 views 1 likes
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Mr.Jörg Feustel-Büechl received the title of Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau
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High Dutch Civil Honours received within ESA’s Human Spacef…

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A view of the Earth from the International Space Station
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'It is awkward being in weightlessness'

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StarTiger to roar in Finland

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Airbus A300-600 on the ILA2002
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A journey into space at the Berlin Air and Space Show

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Andre Kuipers safely back on Earth
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Successful European DELTA mission concludes with Soyuz land…

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ESA astronaut André Kuipers in the Soyuz capsule after launch before reaching ISS
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ESA astronaut André Kuipers prepares to leave ISS

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Keeping fit
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Space solutions for health

27/04/2004 1722 views 2 likes
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Mediet food tray
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Buon appetito: Russian cosmonauts on a Mediterranean diet

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The International Space Station as seen from the Soyuz prior to docking.
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DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS

21/04/2004 1784 views 1 likes
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Launch of the DELTA Mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
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DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut

19/04/2004 1379 views 1 likes
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Soyuz launcher upright on the launch pad, ready for launch on at 05:18 CEST (03:18 UT) Monday 19 April 2004
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Soyuz launcher transferred to launch pad

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Last Soyuz training for 8S crew
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Follow the DELTA launch and docking with the ISS from one o…

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Inside the landing capsule
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André Kuipers' diary - Part 17(II): Rest, Baikonur and quar…

05/04/2004 1100 views 2 likes
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Working on KUBIK during the ISS exam
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André Kuipers' diary - Part 16: Last lessons, final exams a…

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With spacesuit
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André Kuipers' diary - Part 17(I): Rest, Baikonur and quara…

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The Jules Verne videometre
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State of the art in automatic rendezvous

02/04/2004 2527 views 2 likes
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ESA astronaut Wubbo Ockels getting ready to sleep
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Spaceflight ambassador Wubbo Ockels lends a hand with DELTA…

01/04/2004 925 views 1 likes
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ATV Jules Verne docked to the ISS
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Successful testing of Jules Verne videometer

26/03/2004 1554 views 1 likes
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Space station Mir
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Europe and Russia: a 15-year partnership in human spaceflig…

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Live Internet briefings 36th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign

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Issues of international space law
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Palladia vs Zirconia - a legal case on the space station 'O…

23/03/2004 609 views 0 likes
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During training in the Soyuz simulator
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A barrage of questions for André Kuipers during web chat

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Matroshka experiment: Phantom and external container
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ISS to receive experimental figurehead during spacewalk

25/02/2004 1192 views 1 likes
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Progress M1-11 approaches the Space Station
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European experiments ready for activation on ISS

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Progress M1-11 launch
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Successful Progress launch paves the way for further scien…

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The top donors were presented with space Euros
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Space Euros presented to top donors

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These scale diagrams give an idea of the relative size of ATV as compared to the Progress and Apollo spacecraft
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ATV: the most powerful space tug ever built

10/12/2003 7792 views 1 likes
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Spin cycle!
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Lose weight fast the ESA way!

03/12/2003 1102 views 0 likes
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Spacelab 1 on orbit
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Spacelab-1: Twenty years on

28/11/2003 6356 views 18 likes
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