european space agency
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Is That White Chocolate Or The Surface Of Mars?
A new image of dunes on the Martian north pole looks a lot like a candy bar.
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European Space Agency Chief Urges Humanity To Protect Apollo 11, Lunokhod 1 Landing Sites
July 20, 2019 was the 50th anniversary of the date when Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface, and the chief of the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to give their landing site, Tranquility Base, special heritage status.
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BepiColombo Spacecraft Snaps Its First Selfie From Space On Its Way To Mercury
The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its first image from space.
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A Fleet Of European Satellites Is Experiencing A Very Odd Problem
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Galileo satellites have been having a bad time for the past 17 years. Now, the 10 billion euro project has suffered what might be its strangest setback yet: Nine clocks across the 18 Galileo satellites in orbit have suddenly stopped working. For a fleet that was supposed to create an…