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ESA's Juice Confirms Earth Is Habitable as It Prepares for Jupiter Mission

While the results were unsurprising, they ensure that Juice will be ready to search for potential life-supporting environments when it reaches Jupiter's moons, including Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

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Scientists Recreate Mars’ Mysterious ‘Spiders’ in NASA Lab

The experiment confirmed the leading theory, known as the Kieffer model, which suggests that the spiders form when sunlight heats carbon dioxide ice, causing it to sublimate directly into gas.

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Scientists Discover 'Smiley Face' Crater on Mars, Offering Clues to Ancient Life

Chloride salts, left behind as Mars’ lakes evaporated, are crucial for understanding the Martian climate and could be key to detecting preserved signs of ancient microbial life.

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ESA Unveils Mars Flyover Video Exploring Canyons of Nili Fossae

The minerals detected in this region include silicates, carbonates, and clays, pointing to a time when the region was considerably wet, supporting underground hydrothermal flows heated by ancient volcanoes.

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ESA's Mars Orbiter Captures Image of Its Largest Crater in Utopia Planitia

Estimates suggest that thousands of cubic kilometers of frozen water are buried beneath the surface, hinting at Mars' climatic history and its capacity to host life forms in the ancient past.

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Solar Orbiter Captures the Sun’s Vibrant Atmosphere in Unprecedented Detail

Captured using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on September 27, 2023, the footage showcases a variety of solar phenomena, including coronal 'moss', towering spicules, and mesmerizing plasma eruptions.

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ESA's Mars Express Reveals Spider-like Formations on Mars

The "spiders" range in size from 45 meters to as large as 1 kilometer across, formed by dust shooting up through the cracks in the ice in spectacular tall fountains or geysers.

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ESA to Launch Proba-3 Mission for Artificial Solar Eclipses in Space

The two spacecraft will operate autonomously, using advanced technologies such as satellite navigation, inter-satellite radio links, visible-light cameras, and lasers for millimeter-accurate positioning.

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Mars Express Unveils Stunning Images of Dunes and Ice at Martian North Pole

These images, showcasing the stark beauty of the Red Planet's polar region, provide a glimpse into a world where dust and water ice intermingle, extending across an area as large as France.

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Dead European Satellite Is Set to Crash Back to Earth Soon

ESA initiated controlled maneuvers in 2011 to expedite the satellite's descent, reducing the risk of collision with other space objects. ERS-2 is now expected to crash back to Earth in mid-February.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captures Spectacular Star Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

By studying regions like N79 with the JWST, scientists can gain valuable insights into the composition of gas and dust clouds during the early universe's peak star formation period.

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The Mars Express Orbiter Discovers Water Ice Deposits Beneath Mars' Surface

While the exact quantity of ice remains undetermined, preliminary analysis suggests that if it were to melt, it could inundate Mars with an ocean up to 2.7 meters deep.

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Hubble Captures a Spectacular Collision of Two Spiral Galaxies

This captivating encounter involves NGC 6040, a tilted and warped spiral galaxy, and LEDA 59642, a round and face-on spiral galaxy, locked in a gravitational embrace.

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ESA Astronaut Captures a Rare Thunder Phenomenon Above Earth

To capture this nearly instantaneous event, Mogensen used a Davis camera, capable of taking up to 100,000 images per second, functioning much like the human eye.

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ESA's Orbiter Observed Mars' Atmosphere Glowing Green at Night

In 2020, the phenomenon was observed in visible light during Martian daylight using TGO. Now, scientists have observed it at night through TGO, providing valuable insights into this captivating phenomenon.

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Mars Express Reveals the Marvelous Labyrinth of Night on Mars

The four-minute video provides a serene aerial tour set to ethereal music. It captures deep, steep-walled canyons and expansive plateaus, giving a sense of the dusty and sandy nature of the Martian surface.

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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Mysterious Planet-Like Objects in Orion Nebula

The JWST stumbled upon "Jupiter Mass Binary Objects" (JuMBOs), which are Jupiter-sized planets freely drifting through space without any tether to a star. What's more intriguing is that they appear to move in pairs, with approximately 40 such duos observed.

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James Webb Captures a Spectacular Image of a Young Star's Phenomenal Outburst

Located about 1,000 light-years away in the Perseus constellation, HH 211 is a stellar marvel, and its image was captured using infrared light, revealing a mesmerizing display of colorful streams.

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European Space Ambitions: Ariane 6, Transparency, and Interstellar Diplomacy

Europe's latest endeavors in space showcase a blend of technical brilliance, commitment to transparency, and a philosophical consideration of the cosmos's mysteries. These efforts remind us of the shared responsibility we have in navigating the final frontier.

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BepiColombo Snaps New Images of Mercury During Its Third Flyby

During its recent flyby, BepiColombo made measurements of the planet's environment and snapped images of its scorched surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images just 24 hours after the closest approach.

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ESA Held the First-Ever Livestream from Mars

The livestream featured images captured by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) onboard the Mars Express spacecraft. These images were transmitted to Earth and then streamed directly on YouTube.

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Europe's Latest Weather Satellite Took an Incredibly Detailed Image of Earth

Launched into space last December, the European Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 is the first next-generation satellite set to revolutionize weather forecasting in Europe, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Celestial Fireworks Left by a Star's Death

The image shows intertwined strands of blue and orange that are the remnants of the supernova DEM L 190. The structure is located in the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and hides a rapidly spinning neutron star.

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Hubble Space Telescope Shared a New Festive Season Photo

The image shows a small region of the Westerhout 5 nebula, which is 7,000 light years away from Earth. The luminous image hosts a variety of interesting features, including a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG).

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NASA Showed How It Will Bring Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth

A set of samples from the rover will be reloaded aboard the Mars Ascent Vehicle. It will deliver the samples to a Martian orbit, where they will be picked up by the Earth Return Orbiter and delivered to Earth.