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Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes (link opens in a new window)

An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA’s Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion. <...

Fly your experiment to the edge of space! (link opens in a new window)

ESA is inviting students to propose experiments to fly on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons. The winning teams will have the opportunity to design and build an experiment for the BEXUS balloons or the REXUS rockets....

The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 (link opens in a new window)

The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. NGC 4666 is a remarkable galaxy with very vigorous sta...

ESO Call for Proposals for Period 87 released. Deadline is 30 September 2010 (link opens in a new window)

ESO Call for Proposals for Period 87 released. Deadline is 30 September 2010.

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Mars’s mysterious elongated crater (link opens in a new window)

Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars’s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery....

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