Clearest evidence yet of Polar Ice losses
An international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced the most accurate assessment, with the clearest evidence yet of Polar ice losses, from Antarctica and Greenland. Image credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington
Total Solar Eclipse, November 2012 [video]
The Solar Eclipse of November 13-14, 2012 which was visible only from the northern part of Australia. Watch the video…
ESA- Space for the Cost of a Movie Ticket [video]
You, together with your 500 million fellow citizens from European Space Agency – ESA‘s 20 European member nations, are the collective owners of one of the world’s leading space agencies. This new remarkable video offers a quick introduction: Europe, meet ESA.
Earth’s Magnetosphere behaves like a Sieve
ESA’s quartet of satellites has discovered that Earth’s Magnetosphere behaves like a sieve in orbit, and that our protective magnetic bubble lets the solar wind in under a wider range of conditions than previously believed.
Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun
A long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun‘s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second, held on August 31, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. EDT. Watch the video
Hubble’s hidden treasures unveiled
These amazing deep space images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, have lain hidden in data vaults. That was until the European Space Agency opened them up to the public, invited skywatchers and awarded prizes to the top ten entries.
Josh Lake of the United States won with this awesome image of NGC 1763, part of the N11 star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Mauritania as seen from ISS
A part of Mauritania photographed by International Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers, on 10 May 2012 using a Nikon D2Xs. Image credit: ESA/NASA
A spring bloom
A spring bloom of phytoplankton was captured in this SPOT-5 image off of Ireland’s northwest coast, North Atlantic Ocean. In lower-right, we can see part of County Mayo’s coast – which appears pink in the false-colour image. Credits: CNES/Spot Image/ESA
Rainforest river
This is Juruá River snaking through the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil, from the Envisat satellite. Along the river’s main course are free-standing ‘oxbow lakes’, formed when a river changes course. Image credit ESA
Best of Hubble- 22 Years in images
On 24 April 1990, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space.
To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope this month, episode 54 of the Hubblecast gives a slideshow of some of the best images from over two decades in orbit, set to specially commissioned music. credit: ESA/Hubble
