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30 November 2005 - Buried craters and underground ice - Mars Express uncovers depths of Mars
For the first time in the history of planetary exploration, the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express has provided direct information about the deep subsurface of Mars. audio interview
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30 November 2005 - Mars Express evidence for large aquifers on early Mars
Substantial quantities of liquid water must have been stably present in the early history of Mars. The findings of OMEGA, on board ESA's Mars Express, have implications on the climatic history of the planet and the question of its 'habitability' at some point in its history.
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30 November 2005 - Highlights of ESA’s Huygens mission
After a seven-year journey on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe was released on 25 December 2004. It reached the upper layer of Titan's atmosphere on 14 January 2005 and landed on the surface after a parachute descent of 2 hours and 28 minutes.
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21 November 2005 - ESA ‘Huygens and Mars Express’ science highlights - Call to press
ESA PR 54-2005. This has been a triumphant year for science at the European Space Agency. Almost one year has passed since ESA’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
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17 November 2005 - Mars Express radar data analysis is on the move
The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Here we report on the activities so far.
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16 November 2005 - Integral reveals new class of ‘supergiant’ X-ray binary stars
ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary stars, undetected in previous observations.
More information can be found here.
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11 November 2005 - Communicating scientific research
Scientific research brings many benefits yet many find it difficult to understand and of little relevance to their daily lives. Next week’s CER 2005 conference will be looking at ways to change Europeans’ perception of science and research, the driving forces behind much of the progress made by society.
More information can be found here.
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9 November 2005 - Venus Express en route to probe the planet's hidden mysteries
ESA PR 50-2005. The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its journey from Earth towards its destination of the planet Venus, which it will reach next April.
More information can be found here.
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8 November 2005 - Listening for Venus Express
A complex and far-flung network of ground tracking stations will be intently ‘watching’ tonight’s sky waiting to acquire the critical first signal back to Earth from Venus Express, scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome on board a Soyuz launcher at 04:30 CET tomorrow morning.
More information can be found here.
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27 October 2005 - Cassini to fly-by Titan and Huygens landing site
After three amazing close encounters with the icy moons Tethys, Hyperion and Dione, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft is returning to Titan for its ninth planned fly-by with Saturn’s large atmosphere-shrouded moon.
More information can be found here.
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21 October 2005 - Venus Express set for launch to the cryptic planet
ESA INFO 01-2005. A dense curtain of mysteries surrounding Venus, the hot and hazy sister planet to Earth, awaits to be opened after the launch of Venus Express, the next planetary probe of the European Space Agency.
More information can be found here.
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15 October 2005 - Cassini-Huygens mission celebrates anniversary
On the eighth anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, the teams involved can look back at a string of remarkable discoveries.
More information can be found here.
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13 October 2005 - Unusual eclipse of Saturn's moon Rhea by Dione
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its only fly-by of Saturn's moon Dione on 11 October 2005. In the process, Cassini captured this image of Dione eclipsing Saturn's moon Rhea.
More information can be found here.
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28 September 2005 - 'Big baby' galaxy found in newborn Universe
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have teamed up to 'weigh' the stars in distant galaxies. One of these galaxies is not only one of the most distant ever seen, but it appears to be unusually massive and mature for its place in the young Universe.
More information can be found here.
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23 September 2005 - Reflections in the world's largest space mirror
Much of our Universe has long remained invisible. Our eyes perceive only a fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum. Seeing at infrared wavelengths, for instance, allows astronomers to explore hidden celestial objects and processes such as the birth of stars. In two years, they will be able to use the most powerful of all infrared space telescopes, Herschel.
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