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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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Ultrasound for space offers remote diagnosis to patients on Earth

Radiologists are investigating people’s medical conditions and pregnancies remotely thanks to an ESA-backed robotic technology. The set-up enables medics to care for some patients at a distance during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Radiologist uses dummy to manipulate ultrasound probe remotely.

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Study: Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in Existing Data?

Current experiments’ detectors and data analyses efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals that may have been overlooked

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This image was produced by a simulation showing the evolution of dark matter in the universe.

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Newly Reprocessed Images of Europa Show 'Chaos Terrain' in Crisp Detail

Work is ongoing to refine images NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured of Europa as scientists prepare for exploration of Jupiter's icy moon.

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In this gallery of three newly reprocessed Europa images, details are visible in the variety of features on the moon's icy surface. This image of an area called Chaos Transition shows blocks that have moved and ridges possibly related to how the crust fractures from the force of Jupiter's gravity.

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Challenging a Plasma Assumption

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How can we improve our models of space plasmas like the solar wind?

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Can rain trigger a volcanic eruption

The notion that rain could lead to a volcanic eruption may seem strange, but scientists from the University of Miami in the USA, have used information from satellites, including the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, to discover that a period of heavy rainfall may have triggered the four month-long eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018.

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Kilauea eruption 2018.