european space agency

Hubble: 15 Years of Discovery

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:06:49 -0600

Lars Lindberg Christensen & Robert A. Fosbury

This book is a wonderful look at the universe through the eye of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is the single most important space mission ever. The oversize (10 X 12 inch) images are stunningly detailed and beautifully colored. The text is pretty...

ESA leads the way to map boreal forest

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Space Agency) How best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with space-borne radar is the focus of an ESA campaign currently underway in northern Sweden. By answering this question, the campaign addresses one of the key objectives of the candidate Earth Explorer BIOMASS mission.

Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low, Ulysses Spacecra...

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:17 -0500

Data from the Ulysses spacecraft, a joint NASA-European Space Agency mission, show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available. The sun's current state could reduce the natural shielding that envelops our solar system.

NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun's solar wind is at a 50-year low.

NPL to create 'encyclopedia for space nanomaterials'

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(National Physical Laboratory) National Physical Laboratory wins European Space Agency contract for European nanomaterials survey.

GOCE Earth Explorer Satellite To Look At The Earth's Surface And...

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:45:15 -0500

The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet -- the geoid -- with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.

GOCE Earth explorer satellite to look at the Earth's surface and...

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Space Agency) The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet -- the geoid -- with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.

GOCE begins its journey to launch site

admin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Space Agency) GOCE, the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites to be launched into orbit, has taken off aboard an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft for its flight to the Arkhangelsk Airport in Russia, en route to Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow.

Mars Sample Return: The next step in exploring the Red Planet

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Space Agency) ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group, an international conference on July 9 and 10 in the auditorium of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars.

Cluster listens to the sounds of Earth

admin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(European Space Agency) The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's Cluster mission is showing scientists how to understand this emission and, in the future, search for alien worlds by listening for their sounds.