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Aeolus goes public

Delivering new information about Earth’s winds, ESA’s Aeolus mission has already been hailed a success. Today, this remarkable satellite mission has yet again achieved new heights: its data are now being distributed publicly to forecasting services and scientific users in less than three hours of measurements being made from space.

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Understanding Earth’s winds

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SOFIA Finds Clues Hidden in Pluto’s Haze

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Still image from an animation illustrating Pluto passing in front of a star during an eclipse-like event known as an occultation. SOFIA observed the dwarf planet as it was momentarily backlit by a star on June 29, 2015 to analyze its atmosphere.

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A bent bridge between two galaxy clusters

A new study, based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories, sheds new light on a three million light-year long bridge of hot gas linking two galaxy clusters, whose shape is being bent by the mighty activity of a nearby supermassive black hole.

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Bridge between galaxy clusters in Abell 2384 – optical view

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NASA Airborne Science Interns Gathering Data at Home

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SARP intern Gabriela Vidad, a physics major from Adelphi University in New York, takes an air sample near her home.

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Making Skies Safe for Unmanned Aircraft

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NASA’s UAS Integration in the NAS project, used the Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation’s unmanned TigerShark aircraft for its Flight Test Series Six project. The TigerShark performed a systems checkout flight at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in July 2019.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Spacecraft Put in Launch Configuration

Stacking spacecraft components on top of each other is one of the final assembly steps before a mission launches to the Red Planet.

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover's descent stage was recently stacked atop the rover at Kennedy Space Center, and the two were placed in their back shell. The Ingenuity helicopter can be seen attached to the rover's underside (lower center of the image).

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Telescopes and Spacecraft Join Forces to Probe Deep into Jupiter’s Atmosphere

HUBBLE AND GEMINI WATCH FROM AFAR, CAPTURING HIGH-RESOLUTION GLOBAL VIEWS OF JUPITER THAT ARE KEY TO INTERPRETING JUNO'S CLOSE-UP OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLANET.

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Telescopes and Spacecraft Join Forces to Probe Deep into Jupiter’s Atmosphere

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Shedding light on the ocean’s living carbon pump

Phytoplankton play a crucial role in ocean biology and climate. Understanding the natural processes that influence phytoplankton primary production, and how they are changing as the planet warms, is vital. A new study, using data from the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative, has produced a 20-year time-series of global primary production in the oceans – shedding new light on the ocean’s living carbon pump.

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Baltic blooms.

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A Stellar Waltz

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A Stellar Waltz

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ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye

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ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

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