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Tag Archives: ESA
Mars Express: Visual Monitoring Camera goes pro
In the past fortnight, the VMC camera on Mars Express has delivered some of the best images ever, showing the Martian surface in excellent detail, colour and contrast. If you’re a VMCer (and, if you’re reading this, you are!) and … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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Mars Express: Rover craters
In the week of 18 September 2017, the low-resolution webcam on ESA’s Mars Express captured some impressive images from between 3000 km to 5000 km altitude. The image series is being used to calibrate the camera now that it has … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, ESA, European Space Agency, Gale Crater, Gusev Crater, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, Meridiani Planum, MEX, Opportunity, Spirit
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HRSC: Crashing into martian mud
An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars. Impacts of comets and asteroids have shaped the surfaces of rocky planets and moons over the Solar System’s 4.6 billion … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, ground ice, groundwater, Hellas Basin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, impact processes, Mars Express, MEX
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iMars & PSUP: New tools to explore Mars data
In past decades, spacecraft have sent back huge amounts of complex data about Mars, providing a wealth of information about the planet. More than ever, the scientific community needs a way to sift through, compare, and analyse these data, prompting … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, ESA Planetary Science Archive, European Space Agency, iMars, Mars Express, MEX, Planetary SUrface Portal, PSUP
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ExoMars 2020: Window into rover’s search for Mars life
Anyone interested in the scientific exploration of Mars and the search for life on the Red Planet will want to read a special issue of the journal Astrobiology. This collection of papers includes one dedicated to the objectives of ESA’s … Continue reading
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Tagged astrobiology, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2020, ExoMars 2020 rover, life
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ExoMars TGO: Aerobraking restarts in September
After an approximately 11-week pause due to Mars conjunction and a major software update, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will restart its aerobraking campaign in September. Aerobraking, you’ll recall, is the year-long campaign being conducted by TGO using the … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobraking, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2016, Roscosmos, solar conjunction, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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Does Mars’ bow shock location correlate with atmospheric dust?
A Lancaster University [UK] physicist has led an international study, based on data from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, which throws new light on the interaction between the planet Mars and supersonic particles in the solar wind. As the energetic particles … Continue reading
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Tagged ASPERA-3, atmosphere, bow shock, dust, dust storms, ESA, European Space Agency, global dust storms, Mars Express, Mars Express Analyser of Space Plasma and EneRgetic Atoms, MEX
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HRSC: Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise
An ancient mountain range on Mars preserves a complex volcanic and tectonic past imprinted with signs of water and ice interactions. The images, taken on 9 April by the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express, show the Thaumasia mountains … Continue reading
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Tagged Coracis Fossae, DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, Solis Planum, Thaumasia mountains
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HRSC: Tributes to wetter times on Mars
A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA’s Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator at the boundary of the southern … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Libya Montes, Mars Express, MEX, valley networks
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Trace Gas Orbiter: Aerobraking suspended
On 25 June, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will suspend its aerobraking campaign until the end of August due to Mars’ conjunction with the Sun. With Mars behind the Sun, TGO’s communication with Earth will be difficult, and so the spacecraft orbit … Continue reading
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Tagged aerobraking, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2016, Roscosmos, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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