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  • Recipe for water: just add starlight
    ESA?s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour.

  • Cluster turns the invisible into the visible
    Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of the aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes that occur across the Universe. And there is more work to do.

  • Mars?s mysterious elongated crater
    Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars?s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery.

  • ESA?s pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary ? Invitation to a media briefing on 1 September 2010
    ESA PR 2010-19 Media representatives are cordially invited to a briefing on the occasion of ten years of scientific discoveries by ESA?s Cluster mission.

  • Instruments selected for Mars
    ESA PR-17 2010 ESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, methane could point to life on the Red Planet.

  • Cluster's decade of discovery
    ESA?s pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During the past decade, Cluster?s four satellites have provided extraordinary insights into the largely invisible interaction between the Sun and Earth.

  • Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia
    Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA?s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it is most probably a primitive survivor from the violent birth of the Solar System.

  • Planck unveils the Universe ? now and then
    ESA PR-15 2010 ESA?s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang.

  • Call for Media: Rosetta flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 July
    ESA PR-14 2010: The media are invited to ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, to follow Rosetta's encounter with asteroid Lutetia on 10 July, 18:00?23:00 CEST. The first images of the asteroid will be released before midnight, with experts available for interview.

  • Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
    When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.


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