June 9, 2023

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs: UNOOSA and ESA launch new space solutions database linked to the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs: UNOOSA and ESA launch new space solutions database linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. “The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have launched a new database listing current and past projects from space agencies in support of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”

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May 6, 2022

European Space Agency: ‘Spot the difference’ to help reveal Rosetta image secrets

European Space Agency: ‘Spot the difference’ to help reveal Rosetta image secrets. “Today, ESA and the Zooniverse launch Rosetta Zoo, a citizen science project that invites volunteers to engage in a cosmic game of ‘spot the difference’. By browsing through pictures collected by ESA’s Rosetta mission, you can help scientists figure out how a comet’s surface evolves as it swings around the Sun.”

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April 4, 2022

Hack A Day: Monitor Space Weather And The Atmosphere With Your Cellphone!

Hack A Day: Monitor Space Weather And The Atmosphere With Your Cellphone!. “Above our heads, the atmosphere is a complex and unpredictable soup of gasses and charged particles subject to the influence of whatever the Sun throws at it. Attempting to understand it is not for the faint-hearted, so it has for centuries been the object of considerable research. A new project from the European Space Agency and ETH Zurich gives the general public the chance to participate in that research in a small way, by crowdsourcing atmospheric data gathering to a mobile phone app.”

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October 23, 2020

Digital Trends: Browse hundreds of images of Mars captured by ESA’s Mars Express webcam

Digital Trends: Browse hundreds of images of Mars captured by ESA’s Mars Express webcam. “If you’ve ever wanted to get a close-up look at Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) has just released a treasure trove of images. Captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) instrument onboard the Mars Express orbiter, these images come from data captured between 2007 and this year, in addition to observations of the release of the Beagle 2 lander in 2003.”

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August 30, 2019

New Atlas: Track spacecraft as they talk to Earth in real time with new ESA tool

New Atlas: Track spacecraft as they talk to Earth in real time with new ESA tool. “The European Space Agency has released a new tool that allows space enthusiasts to track their favorite missions in real time as they communicate with ground stations back on Earth. The service provides a range of information on spacecraft and antennae, including how long it takes for a signal to travel between the two, and the distance that separates them.”

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April 27, 2018

New Scientist: Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars

New Scientist: Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars. “We’re building a map of our galaxy, one star at a time. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite orbits Earth 1.5 million kilometres away, staring at millions of stars every day to make a 3D map of our galaxy. On 25 April it released its second batch of data. In 2016, Gaia first released data from its star catalog spanning 14 months of constant observation. It included information about the brightness and positions in the sky of 1.1 billion stars, and more detailed data on the distances and motions of the brightest two million of those. This new data release is even more robust, covering another 22 months of observation time. It includes more stars than the first release, and the colours, temperatures, and radii for some of those stars.”

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February 21, 2017

ESA: ESA Affirms Open Access Policy for images, Videos and Data

From the ESA (European Space Agency): ESA Affirms Open Access Policy for images, Videos and Data. “ESA today announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data. … In particular, a new Open Access policy for ESA’s information and data will now facilitate broadest use and reuse of the material for the general public, media, the educational sector, partners and anybody else seeking to utilise and build upon it.”

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January 25, 2017

The ESA Has Updated Its Planetary Science Archive

The ESA Planetary Science Archive has gotten a new look. ESA stands for European Space Agency. “ESA launches a new version of its Planetary Science Archive (PSA) website, the online interface to data from the agency’s space science missions that have been exploring planets, moons and other small bodies in the Solar System. With a new design and enhanced search functionalities, the platform now provides a direct and simple access to the scientific data, helping scientists to discover and explore the archive content.”

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September 15, 2016

European Space Agency Releases First Data from Star-Mapping Project

The European Space Agency has released its first data in its project to build an atlas of one billion stars. “Mission manager Fred Jansen told a news conference in Madrid that the project has already collected some 500 billion measurements and he is ‘extremely happy’ with the precision of the data. It is being distributed among scientists for analysis. At the heart of the five-year mission is the 10-metre-wide Gaia spacecraft, which resembles a barrel sitting on a silver saucer. It carries two telescopes and is orbiting slowly around the sun.” The data are also available online.

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