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1985: On 2 July 1985, ESA's Giotto spacecraft was launched on board an Ariane-1 from ESA's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.Giotto was ESA’s first deep-space mission. In 1986, it became ...
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2003: On 3 July 2003, ESA's Mars Express spacecraft sent images of a unique view of Earth and the Moon. It was one of the first data sets coming from ESA's Mars Express.
The views of the Earth/Moon system were taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), when the spacecraft was 8 million kilometres from Earth. The image taken shows true colours; the Pacific Ocean appears in blue, and the clouds near the Equator and in mid to northern latitudes in white to light grey. It was built by combining a super resolution black and white HRSC image of the Earth and the Moon with colour information obtained by the blue, green and red sensors of the instrument.
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1 July
1999: On 1 July 1999, ESA's de-activated Giotto spacecraft performed its second Earth fly-by, 14 years since its launch on 2 July 1985 and five years after its previous return ...
30 June
1908: On 30 June 1908, over the skies of Tunguska in Russia, a meteorite no less than 50 metres in diameter travelling at approximately 100 000 kilometres per hour penetrated ...
29 June
1995: On 29 June 1995, the US Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir for a mission which lasted until 4 July 1995.The docking tested a special ...
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