A look back in pictures at our ESA Open Day on 7 October 2018 – when 7 500 visitors gathered at our ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands
Author: jappe
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Open Day in pictures
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Mediterranean slick
Copernicus Sentinel-1 has imaged the oil spill in the Mediterranean following a collision between two merchant ships on Sunday 7 October -
Call for Media: BepiColombo launch to Mercury
The BepiColombo mission to Mercury is scheduled to launch aboard an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST) on 20 October 2018. Representatives of traditional and social media are invited to apply for accreditation to follow the launch live from ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
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INTO ORBIT℠ with 2018 FIRST® LEGO® League competition
How can I walk my dog on the Moon? What happens if I sneeze in space? Just some of the questions that more than 500 000 children around the world will be asking and attempting to answer over the next months, as part of this year’s FIRST LEGO League competition, a global STEM program with an annual theme that inspires and challenges young engineers and scientists.
In Europe, ESA has teamed up with LEGO Education to provide inspiration, examples and expertise to the teams of children aged 6 to 16 who are competing for a place in the World Finals in Houston and Detroit, USA. To give an additional incentive, on 1 August, ESA astronaut and Space Station commander Alexander Gerst sent a message from orbit, together with a very helpful LEGO colleague!
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X-ray glow
Space Science Image of the Week: The hot gas pervading this massive cluster of galaxies shines brightly in X-ray wavelengths, as seen by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory -
Astronaut Joe Acaba Farms in Space
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the contributions of the brilliant Hispanic women and men of NASA. In this image, astronaut Joe Acaba installs botany gear for the International Space Station’s Veggie facility, to demonstrate plant growth in space.
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A night to remember
On 28 September ESA’s centre in Italy welcomed 1200 visitors for European Researchers’ Night -
Sentinel-2 maps Indonesia earthquake
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia on 28 September, destroying homes and hundreds of lives. As the death toll continues to rise, the effects of this natural disaster are far-reaching, with hundreds of thousands of people seeking access food, water and shelter in the aftermath of this tragedy.
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Home Again! Space Station Crew Lands
The landing jets fire as the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft lands with Drew Feustel, Ricky Arnold and Oleg Artemyev, members of the Expedition 55 and 56 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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Open Day takes flight
Technology image of the week: this 6-m wingspan unmanned aircraft is on show at ESA’s Open Day on Sunday, suspended inside the Hertz radio test chamber
