A comet that shattered on its approach to the Sun breathed new life into the theory that comet impacts provided most of the water in Earth’s oceans and a significant […]
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ESA’s solar system explorers come alive
Two pioneering ESA spacecraft, Mars Express and Rosetta, are currently being assembled and tested in preparation for launch in 2003. Now, for the first time, the painstaking progress towards the […]
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Giotto’s heritage: the past and future of comet exploration
Almost exactly 15 years ago, during the night of 13/14 March 1986, ESA’s Giotto spacecraft made history by obtaining the first close-up pictures of a comet’s black, icy nucleus. After […]
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Future missions may have a major impact
A 100 metre-wide space rock known as 2001 EC16 paid a passing visit to Earth’s vicinity earlier today. As it swept by at a little over 1.7 million km from […]
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A night to remember: the Giotto flyby of Halley’s comet
Exactly 15 years after the intrepid Giotto spacecraft swept past the nucleus of Halley’s Comet, ESA scientist Gerhard Schwehm shared his memories of past triumphs while looking forward to new […]
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Elachi Named New JPL Director
Dr. Charles Elachi has been named the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology, announced at a press conference today. […]
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Earth Monitoring Satellites Supporting Rescue Efforts in El Salvador
Responding quickly to support rescue efforts converging on El Salvador, member space agencies of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters have dispatched their Earth observation satellites to capture […]
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New Year Message from the Director of the ESA Science Programme
Seventeen years ago the Horizon 2000 plan was formulated and then approved in January 1985 in Rome. It took seventeen years to prepare and have its first two first Cornerstones […]
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Dwarf galaxy provides clues about early universe, says team led by umass astronomer
Contact: Elizabeth Luciano luciano@journ.umass.edu 413-545-2989 University of Massachusetts at Amherst AMHERST, Mass. — A team of researchers led by a University of Massachusetts astronomer has produced the first complete maps […]
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Astronomers report the first detection of a noble gas in a comet and new clues to the origin of Hale-Bopp
Astronomers announced today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Rochester, New York, that they have detected argon, a scientifically valuable noble gas, in comet Hale-Bopp. This discovery constitutes the […]
