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KEO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKEO is a space time capsule which will be launched in 2010 or 2011 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it will reenter Earth's atmosphere. The KEO project is supported by UNESCO (who voted it "Project of the 21st century"), Hutchison ...
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ESA leads the way to map boreal forest | Eureka! Science NewsHow best to map 'boreal' or northern forest with spaceborne 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.
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Sleek Probe To Map Earth’s GravityThe European Space Agency is launching a new satellite to map variations in the Earth's gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. The satellite will give UK scientists vital information about ocean circulation and sea level change needed to improve climate forecast models.
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Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky AtmosphereOxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA's formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth's own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away.
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Distant Galaxy Cluster Confirms Dark Energy : Discovery NewsAn orbiting observatory has spotted a massive cluster of galaxies in deep space that can only be explained by the exotic phenomenon known as dark energy, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday. Spotted in a scan by ESA's orbiting X-ray telescope XMM-Newton, the cluster's mass is about ...
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XMM-Newton's massive discoveryESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of ...
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Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid SteinsESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008.
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ExoMars Rover Will be the Coolest Martian on Six Wheels | astroengine.comPreparations for the European ExoMars mission appear to be in full swing for a 2013 launch to the Red Planet. This will be a huge mission for ESA as they have yet to control a robot on another planet. Yes, us Europeans had control of the Huygens probe that drifted through the atmosphere of Titan ...
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Preparation begins for new European space mission to MarsThe European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission will search for evidence that life may exist, investigate the Martian upper atmosphere, and analyse the physical characteristics and properties of the planet’s surface and interior.
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Incredible pictures of Mars - and they look surprisingly like some parts of Earth | Mail OnlineScientists have released some of the most detailed photographs of Mars ever taken. The pictures, which were snapped from a European Space Agency (ESA) probe, show a region called the Echus Chasma.
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