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Sentinel-1D delivers first images: from Antarctica to Bremen
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning radar images.
Sentinel-5 debuts images of atmospheric gases
Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images – including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, formaldehyde over parts of Africa, and emissions of sulphur dioxide from an active volcano in Russia – showcasing the mission’s powerful capability to monitor atmospheric gases worldwide.
Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council
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Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council White dwarf magnetic field study reveals inner accretion dynamics
Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the larger star into a swirling, accreting disk. The spiraling pair is what's known as an "intermediate polar" - a type of star system that gives off a complex pattern of intense radiat Researchers use X ray analysis to examine flown European satellite
Empa specialists carried out a comprehensive study of the EURECA European satellite, employing non-destructive X-ray imaging to investigate its internal features after the spacecraft's return from orbit. EURECA, launched in 1992 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis by Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, completed eleven months in orbit before its recovery by Space Shuttle Endeavour and return to Earth in NASA's Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS
Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object - from the closest location any of the agency's spacecraft may get - that could reveal new details.
At the start of October, three of NASA's Mars spacecraft had front row seats to view 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object so far discovered in our solar system. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped a close-u