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Europe's Mars Express spacecraft captured images of 'shocks' on Mars
New data from Mars Express doesn't just lift the curtain
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Priceless Map of Mars: Massive 'mineral deposits' revealed on the Red Planet!
The more scientists learn about Mars, the more fascinating scientists find it! This is a huge source of resources, serving future science and technology industries.
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Mars spacecraft upgraded after 20 years of using Windows 98
The software upgrade will help the Mars Express onboard MARSIS tool get better signals, process data more efficiently, and last longer.
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Space weather causes satellites to fall quickly to Earth
Experts fear the new solar cycle will cause satellites flying in low orbit around the Earth to run out of fuel and fall through the atmosphere faster.
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Satellite captures scary image: 'Blood rain' may rain down on Western Europe
Disturbing images from the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite show a giant red ghost moving from the Sahara Desert, across the Atlantic Ocean, towards the Caribbean,…
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Admire the image of the 5,250km2 wide artificial lake seen from space
The European Space Agency (ESA) on March 18 released an image of Lake Nasser, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite.
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European Space Agency develops equipment to harvest oxygen on the Moon
The European Space Agency plans to deploy a device capable of extracting 70% of the oxygen from the lunar surface by 2030.
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Spacecraft photographed giant eruption on the Sun
The Solar Orbiter of NASA and ESA tracks the eruption on the Sun's surface from a distance.
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Cluster of 'otherworldly' objects appear in the middle of a galaxy containing Earth
ESA's Gaia Space Telescope and Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have both recorded a strange line of stars, clearly not belonging to our galaxy.
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ESA probe detects water near the surface of Mars
ESA's ExoMars spacecraft discovered 'a significant amount of water' hidden under the Martian surface in the Grand Canyon system.
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NASA/ESA telescope captures strange X-rays from 3 'hell' planets
NASA's Chandra X-ray Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite investigated anomalous X-ray activity from three white dwarfs and discovered three objects that were planet…
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The mystery of the blue light strip on Mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) first observed the green band of light on Mars' atmosphere.
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Strange phenomenon in South America: Earth is about to reverse?
Many satellites and spacecraft have been troubled by the anomalous change of the Earth's magnetic field, which could signal a repetition of the geostational phenomenon f…
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The universe is giving birth to a planet 3180 times more than Earth
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite (ESA) has captured the closest exoplanet ever formed.
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Europe launches satellite search for extrasolar planets
CHEOPS satellite is like a telescope, designed to measure the thickness, structure and size of many planets outside the solar system.