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    Novel observing mode on XMM-Newton opens new perspectives on galaxy clusters
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    31-Jan-2010
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    Surveying the sky, XMM-Newton has discovered two massive galaxy clusters, confirming a previous detection obtained through observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the 'shadow' they cast on...
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    Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead
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    25-Jan-2014
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    Herschel has discovered massive elliptical galaxies in the nearby Universe containing plenty of cold gas, even though the galaxies fail to produce new stars. Comparison with other data suggests...
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    INTEGRAL deciphers diffuse signature of cosmic-ray electrons
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    21-Jan-2011
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    Astronomers exploiting six years worth of data from ESA's INTEGRAL mission have pinned down the individual processes contributing to the high-energy Galactic interstellar emission produced by...
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    Preparations underway for Rosetta flyby of asteroid Steins
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    08-Jan-2008
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    On 5 September 2008 the Rosetta spacecraft will make its closest approach to asteroid Steins. Preparations are underway to ready the spacecraft for this important scientific milestone.
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    Tenuous ozone layer discovered in Venus' atmosphere
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    06-Jan-2011
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    Using observations of Venus performed with an instrument on ESA's Venus Express scientists have detected, for the first time, a tenuous layer of ozone in this planet's atmosphere. Located at an...
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    Tracing the Universe: X-ray survey supports standard cosmological model
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    04-Jan-2018
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    Scanning the sky for X-ray sources, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has been busy with the XXL Survey, its largest observational programme to date. The second batch of data from the survey has...
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    #13: CHEOPS – chilled and checked, shaken and not stirred
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    31-Jan-2018
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    This summer, the CHEOPS satellite breezed through thermal tests in France and vibration tests in Switzerland, demonstrating that it is ready to operate in the extreme cold of space and also fit to...
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    Video
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    28-Jan-2004
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    Video ESA DVD Click flag for language: Last Update: 1 September 2019
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    Video
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    28-Jan-2004
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    Video ESA DVD Click flag for language: Last Update: 31 August 2019
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    ESA Science Newsletter No. 36
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    22-Jan-2000
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    A message from the Director of the Scientific Programme
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    INFO 11-1997: ESA's Rosetta mission and the puzzles that Hale-Bopp left behind
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    03-Jan-1997
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    While Comet Hale-Bopp steams away into the outer darkness, not to return to the Sun's vicinity for many centuries, the European Space Agency and multinational teams of space scientists are...
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    Science Payload
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    20-Jan-2012
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    Science Payload The JUICE spacecraft will carry the most powerful remote sensing, geophysical, and in situ payload complement ever flown to the outer Solar System. The payload consists of 10...
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    Huygens passes communications test with flying colours
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    26-Jan-2001
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    that ESA's Huygens Probe will be able to fulfil its exciting mission to explore Saturn's
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    Mars Express helps uncover the secrets of Perseverance landing site
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    01-Jan-2020
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    Mapping the ancient lakeshores, diverse minerals and violent volcanism of Jezero crater Two studies based on ESA's Mars Express observations of Jezero crater, the future landing site for NASA's...
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    Spacecraft
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    19-Jan-2006
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    Spacecraft Summary The Gaia spacecraft is comprised of three major functional modules: Spacecraft and exploded diagram The Payload Module containing the optical instrument and all electronics...
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    Venus Express' swansong experiment sheds light on Venus' polar atmosphere
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    19-Jan-2016
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    Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves – and, at an average...
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    Venus Express gets ready to take the plunge
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    16-Jan-2014
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    After eight years in orbit, ESA's Venus Express has completed routine science observations and is preparing for a daring plunge into the planet's hostile atmosphere.
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    Hipparcos: stars in 3-D
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    23-Jan-2000
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    Hipparcos success stories, plus an introduction to the European Space Operations Centre
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    Europe's search for gravitational waves
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    21-Jan-2017
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    In 2013, the European Space Agency adopted "The Gravitational Universe" as the science theme for L3, the agency's third large-class mission. On 20 June 2017, the ESA Science Programme...
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    Europe's search for gravitational waves
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    21-Jan-2017
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    In 2013, ESA adopted "The Gravitational Universe" as the science theme for L3, the agency's third large-class mission. Later this year, the European Space Agency is expected to make a...
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    Engineering
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    14-Jan-2003
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    Engineering
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    Science Overview
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    08-Jan-2003
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    Science Overview Introduction Artists impression of Ulysses The Ulysses scientific investigations encompass studies of the heliospheric magnetic field, heliospheric radio and plasma waves, the...
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    Payload Module
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    13-Jan-2006
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    Payload Module Summary The payload consists of a single integrated instrument that comprises three major functions. In the earlier spacecraft designs, the three functions were distributed over...
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    No. 19 - Succesful Orbital Deflection Manoeuvre
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    28-Jan-2004
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    December 2004, to keep it from following the Huygens probe into the atmosphere of Saturn's
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    Huygens Scientific Archive Data Set Released
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    02-Jan-2006
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    ESA's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's
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    Huygens to test Volta's 200-year old invention at Titan
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    27-Jan-2000
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    Huygens spacecraft has already completed a third of its interplanetary journey to Saturn
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    Venus Express: mission overview
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    06-Jan-2003
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    ESA's first mission to Venus began in March 2001, with a call for ideas from the scientific community on how best to reuse the spacecraft platform developed for Mars Express. On 5 November 2002,...
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    The history of Hubble
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    23-Jan-2015
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    The history of Hubble 1923: The rocket scientist Hermann Oberth publishes an article in which he proposes the idea of a telescope in orbit of Earth. 1946: The astronomer Lyman Spitzer writes a...
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    New evidence for a warmer and wetter early Mars
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    06-Jan-2016
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    A recent study from ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provides new evidence for a warm young Mars that hosted water across a geologically long timescale, rather than...
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    Instruments
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    04-Jan-2016
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    Instruments Note: Hitomi (formerly ASTRO-H) was a high-energy astrophysics space observatory, developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in collaboration with institutions in Japan,...
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    No. 76 - Successful Mars Swing-by
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    27-Jan-2007
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    Report for Period 10 February to 25 February 2007The reporting period covers a period of two weeks, ending with the successful Mars swing-by on 25 February 2007. Leading up to the actual swing-by...
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    No. 235 - Atmospheric Drag Campaign #5; Start of Radio Science Investigations Occultation Campaign #11
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    13-Jan-2011
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    Report for the period 22 May to 18 June 2011 (week 21 - week 24)The reporting period, covering four weeks of Venus Express mission operations, was devoted to routine science activities. The fifth...
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    Hubble's Success Stories
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    28-Jan-2003
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    Hubble's Success Stories The first naked black hole in a galaxy In 1997 Phillippe Crane, a scientist examining Hubble images at the European Southern Observatory at Garching, Germany, discovered...
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    Martian Surface
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    14-Jan-2003
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    How the surface of Mars changes
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    Shedding light on white dwarfs – the future of stars like our Sun
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    17-Jan-2019
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    ESA's Gaia mission has been busy mapping our Milky Way galaxy since 2014, and just over one year ago released its second batch of data on more than one billion stars. Since then, astronomers have...
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    Mission Summary
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    02-Jan-2008
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    Mission Summary Euclid Mapping the geometry of the dark Universe Theme How did the Universe originate and what is it made of? Primary Goal To understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter by...
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    Herschel's Cryostat and Service Module Mated
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    19-Jan-2007
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    During the course of the past few months the integration of the Herschel spacecraft has taken place at the Astrium facility in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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    Engineering
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    26-Jan-2003
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    How the Venus Express spacecraft is designed and constructed.
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    Background Science
    Publish date:
    10-Jan-2003
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    Mercury is a small planet, not much bigger than our Moon. Of the nine planets orbiting the Sun, only Pluto is smaller. Although Mercury has been known since Egyptian times, it remains a mystery.
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    Background Science
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    02-Jan-2003
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    Background Science Classification of Comets How to name a comet A new cometary designation system was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 1994, and took effect at the...
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    Engineering
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    21-Jan-2003
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    Engineering
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    About Hubble
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    05-Jan-2005
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    About Hubble History: How Hubble Came About The Earth's atmosphere is the bane of astronomers. The idea of sending a telescope into space to avoid it was first proposed long before the first...
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    Getting to know Rosetta's comet
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    22-Jan-2015
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    Rosetta is revealing its host comet as having a remarkable array of surface features and with many processes contributing to its activity, painting a complex picture of its evolution.
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    New Planck maps reveal unseen details across the Milky Way
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    13-Jan-2012
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    An unambiguous detection of the Galactic Haze - a mysterious, diffuse emission from the central portion of the Milky Way - and the first all-sky map of carbon monoxide, whose emission traces the...
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    Observing the Moon around Impact
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    23-Jan-2006
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    For observing the region of the Moon around the SMART-1 impact sites, a roadmap to navigate along with your telescope is set up. It takes into account sunlit features on 3 September but can be...
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    Andrew Lange, scientist on the BOOMERANG project
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    04-Jan-2001
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    explains some of the results from BOOMERANG and considers what ESA's Planck mission will contribute to our understanding of the Cosmic Microwave Background
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    Participating Observatories
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    31-Jan-2006
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    Several observatories from around the globe have agreed to help ESA in monitoring the impact of SMART-1 on the Moon.
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    Joseph Silk, astronomer
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    01-Jan-2001
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    clarifies some basic concepts in cosmology and explains why we may never get to know whether the Universe is finite or infinite
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    Gaia's billion-star map hints at treasures to come
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    14-Jan-2016
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    The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA's Gaia satellite was published today – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date.
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    New tools for exploring the surface of Mars: the Planetary SUrface Portal (PSUP) and the iMars webGIS
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    07-Jan-2017
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    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...
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    No. 255 - Start of the fourteenth Earth occultation season, completion of the tenth Atmospheric Drag Experiment campaign
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    12-Jan-2013
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    Report for the period 9 December 2012 to 5 January 2013This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations, including the start of the fourteenth occultation season, end of the...
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    S-Cam 3
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    07-Jan-2005
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    This page has been archived and is no longer updated.Following the successful observing campaigns with S-Cam 2, an STJ-based camera for ground based optical astronomy in the period 1999-2000,...
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    Hubble: Europe's share
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    23-Jan-2000
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    Hubble success stories
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    No. 265 - End of the twenty-fifth eclipse season, continuation of the first sulphur dioxide campaign, start of quadrature operations
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    04-Jan-2014
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    Report for the period 15 September to 12 October 2013.This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations. It includes the end of the twenty-fifth eclipse season, continuation of...
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    Highlights from the Rosetta mission thus far
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    04-Jan-2014
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    There are many highlights from the Rosetta mission because there is nothing routine about the endeavour. It is a daring mission that demanded world-class ambition and technological development to...
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    No. 250 - Continuation of the thirteenth Earth occultation season, start of quadrature season, start of the ninth Atmospheric Drag Campaign, and observations of comet Machholz
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    20-Jan-2012
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    Report for the period 22 July to 18 August 2012This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations, from 22 July to 18 August 2012. It includes the start of the ninth Atmospheric...
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    No. 244 – Start of the twentieth solar eclipse season and start of quadrature operations
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    04-Jan-2012
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    Report for the period between 5 February and 3 March 2012 This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations. It includes routine planned operations at moderate but increasing...
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    No. 246 - End of quadrature and eclipse seasons, continuation of the mission's longest Earth occultation season and start of the eighth Atmospheric Drag Experiment campaign
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    23-Jan-2012
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    Report for the period 1 April to 28 April 2012This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations, including the end of special operations for a quadrature season, routine planned...
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    No. 248 - Continuation of the Earth occultation season 13, start of eclipse season 21, inferior conjunction and Venus transit
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    06-Jan-2012
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    Report for the period 27 May 2012 to 23 June 2012This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations, including the transit of Venus during inferior conjunction, the continuation of...
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    Asteroids
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    17-Jan-2000
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    What are asteroids
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    Stellar Distances
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    28-Jan-2004
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    Stellar Distances Introduction On a clear, dark night we may be able to see a few thousand stars in the sky, a tiny proportion of the billions of stars that are thought to exist in the Milky Way...
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    SOHO: solar watchdog
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    23-Jan-2000
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    SOHO success stories, plus an introduction to the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Programme
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    Winners Greece
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    12-Jan-2017
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    Winners Greece 10-12 years old: Ice plumes at the south pole of Enceladus Authors: Sotiris Vlachos, Anna Kostopoulou, Stamatis Petropoulos, Chrysanthos Tsoulakou Στο ηλιακό μας σύστημα βρίσκονται...
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    No. 262 - Continuation of Earth occultation season, end of solar eclipse season, start of Atmospheric Drag Experiment campaign, and special operations due to extensive ground station maintenance
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    13-Jan-2013
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    Report for the period 23 June to 20 July 2013.This reporting period covers four weeks of Venus Express operations. It includes the continuation of the fifteenth Earth occultation season, end of the...
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    SM3A Live Coverage
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    27-Jan-2003
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    SM3A Live Coverage Dec. 26-27 Day 8 - Landing Day Landing Day! An initial concern regarding crosswinds at the landing site at Kennedy Space Center made the NASA officials cancel the first landing...
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    How Venus and Mars can teach us about Earth
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    13-Jan-2019
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    One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish – but it wasn't always that way. The atmospheres of our two neighbours Venus...
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    S-Cam 2
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    21-Jan-2003
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    This page has been archived and is no longer updated.
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    Solar Eclipses Overview
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    13-Jan-2005
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    Solar Eclipses Overview Introduction Solar eclipses A solar eclipse occurs when the shadow cone of the Moon intersects the surface of the Earth and is observable by anyone within this shadow zone...
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    Near Earth Asteroid Sample Return
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    31-Jan-2007
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    The NEA-SR Technology Reference Study (TRS) is a concept study which primarily aims at understanding the requirements and technological drivers for returning a scientifically valuable sample from a...
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    European Mars Science & Exploration Conference: Mars Express & ExoMars
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    24-Jan-2007
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    European Mars Science & Exploration Conference: Mars Express & ExoMars Programme Programme of the EMSEC 2007 conference held 12 to 16 November at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The abstract...
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    2nd Workshop on planning for a joint scientific space mission - <br> An initiative of the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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    11-Jan-2014
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    2nd Workshop on planning for a joint scientific space mission - An initiative of the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences First announcement and call for papers for second...
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    Instrument Objectives
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    14-Jan-2003
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    Instrumentation for Mars Express
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    Q&A for Solar Orbiter Payload AO
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    01-Jan-2007
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    Q&A for Solar Orbiter Payload AO 29 Oct 2007 - NGD not in revised PDD Q: Is it true that the NGD was excluded from the revised PDD for technical reasons. If so, what were the reason(s)? A: The...
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    1st Mars Express Conference Presentations
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    16-Jan-2005
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    The presentations from the Media Event held at the end of the first Mars Express Conference are available online.
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    Winners - Greece
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    01-Jan-2014
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    Winners - Greece 10 - 12 years old - Iapetus Authors: Panos Fasoulopoulos Georgia Fasoulopoulos Μια φορά και έναν καιρό, όταν η ζωή έψαχνε το νόημά της σε μια γέννηση και ο χρόνος ήταν υπαρκτός,...
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