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Tag Archives: European Space Agency
Mars Express: Keeping an eye on a curious cloud
Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator. In spite of its location, this atmospheric feature … Continue reading
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Tagged Arsia Mons, clouds, ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Express, Mars Webcam, MEX, orographic clouds, Visual Monitoring Camera, VMC
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Mars Express: Recent tectonics on Mars
These prominent trenches were formed by faults that pulled the planet’s surface apart less than 10 million years ago. The images were taken by ESA’s Mars Express on 27 January, and capture part of the Cerberus Fossae system in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cerberus Fossae, DLR, Elysium Planitia, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Express, MEX, tectonics
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ExoMars: Measures radiation risk for Mars astronauts, watches dust storm subside
Astronauts on a mission to Mars would be exposed to at least 60% of the total radiation dose limit recommended for their career during the journey itself to and from the Red Planet, according to data from the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariadnes Colles, CaSSIS, Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, dust devil tracks, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector, FREND, Roscosmos, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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Trace Gas Orbiter: Frosty crater on Mars
This image shows the south-facing rim of a pit crater at 68°S in the Sisyphi Planum region of Mars. It is a colour composite made from images acquired on 2 September 2018 by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, … Continue reading
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Tagged CaSSIS, CO2 frost, CO2 ice, Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, gullies, Roscosmos, Sisyphi Planum, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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Mars Express: From worry to water
In 2004, a year after Europe’s first mission to Mars was launched, the flight dynamics team at ESA’s operations centre encountered a serious problem. New computer models showed a worrying fate for the Mars Express spacecraft if mission controllers continued … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, Mars Express, MARSIS, MEX, south polar region, subglacial lakes, water
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Mars Express radar finds liquid water under Mars south polar region
Editor’s note: NASA has commented on this discovery. Radar data collected by ESA’s Mars Express point to a pond of liquid water buried under layers of ice and dust in the south polar region of Mars. [The researchers’ paper reporting … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, Mars Express, MARSIS, MEX, south polar region, subglacial lakes, water
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Wanted: A name for the ExoMars 2020 rover
The UK Space Agency has launched a competition to name a rover that is going to Mars to search for signs of life. Due to launch in 2020, the UK-built rover is part of ESA’s ExoMars mission. It will investigate … Continue reading
Mars Express: As the dust storm rolled in
The high resolution stereo camera on board ESA’s Mars Express captured this impressive upwelling front of dust clouds – visible in the right half of the frame – near the north polar ice cap of Mars in April this year. … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, dust storms, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, global dust storms, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Express, MER, MEX, NASA, Opportunity, weather
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Radar shows Mars atmosphere behaves as a single system
New research using a decade of data from ESA’s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex martian atmosphere acting as a single, interconnected system, with processes occurring at low and mid levels significantly affecting those seen higher up. … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, ESA, European Space Agency, Mars Advanced Radar for Sub-Surface and Ionospheric Sounding, Mars Express, MARSIS, MEX
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Exploring planetary plasma environments by laptop
A new database of plasma simulations, combined with observational data and powerful visualisation tools, is providing planetary scientists with an unprecedented way to explore some of the Solar System’s most interesting plasma environments. This digital space exploration story starts with … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, magnetosphere, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, Mars Express, MAVEN, MEX, NASA, plasma, University of Colorado
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