
Planck portrays stellar birth and magnetic turbulence in the Orion Molecular Cloud
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Magnetic Orion
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Mars hills hide icy past

A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice.
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Beagle-2 lander found on Mars

The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was lost on Mars since 2003, has been found in images taken by a NASA orbiter at the Red Planet.
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Ten years at Titan

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the pioneering Huygens mission to Saturn’s moon Titan, the first successful landing on an outer Solar System world -
Venus Express goes gently into the night

ESA’s Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following the low-altitude aerobraking earlier this year.
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Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation

Rosetta’s lander has completed its primary science mission after nearly 57 hours on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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Three touchdowns for Rosetta’s lander

After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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Incoming!

The final stages of Philae’s touchdown seen through the eyes of the lander’s downwards-looking descent camera -
Ambition

How Rosetta is turning science fiction into science fact -
Fly over Mars in 3D

Enjoy a 3D flight over ‘chaotic terrain’ on Mars -
Unveiling Venus

Highlights from ESA’s Venus Express, following end of routine science observations after eight years orbiting the veiled planet -
Join the adventure

Follow news, updates and real-time reporting on ESA’s comet mission via the Rosetta blog