Week in images: 6 - 10 September 2021
Friday, 10 September 2021 12:05
Week in images: 6 - 10 September 2021
Discover our week through the lens
SpaceX to raise bar for space tourism with Inspiration4 launch
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
NASA innovations will help US meet sustainable aviation goals
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
ESO captures best images yet of peculiar "dog-bone" asteroid
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Earthlike planets in other solar systems? Look for moons
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Parker Solar Probe team sheds new light on structure, behavior of inner solar system dust
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Winds delay South Australian launch attempt
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Eutelsat completes OneWeb equity investment
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Smart T-shirt measures astronauts' vital signs
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
Smoke alarm, burning smell disrupt crew on International Space Station
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is ready for his first ISS mission - 'Cosmic Kiss'
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
NASA Mars mission begins a new chapter of science with a new leader
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
China releases first batch of gamma photon data from dark matter explorer
Friday, 10 September 2021 10:44
House Science Committee advances budget reconciliation package
Friday, 10 September 2021 09:18
The House Science Committee approved its portion of a massive budget reconciliation spending bill Sept. 9, making no major changes to its NASA provisions.
Volcanic trenches on Mars
Friday, 10 September 2021 09:00
This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars [10.3°N, 159.5°E] was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
The two blue parallel trenches in this image, called Cerberus Fossae, were thought to have formed by tectonic processes. They run for almost one thousand km over the volcanic region. In this image, CaSSIS is looking straight down into one of these 2 km-wide fissures.
The floor here is a few hundred metres deep and is filled with coarse-grained sand, likely basaltic in composition, which appears blue in the