Top down

Alphasat's Ariane 5 launcher fairing is slowly lowered onto the second payload, with the satellite safely encased inside.

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Virunga Mountains

This Envisat radar image features a chain of volcanoes called the Virunga Mountains that stretch across Rwanda's northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Earth from Space: Explosive land

 

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. 

The Virunga Mountains that stretch across Rwanda's northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic of the Congo are featured in the seventy-third edition. 

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Mission Control Celebrates Success of Apollo 11

Flight controllers celebrate the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission on July 24, 1969, at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston. On July 20, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong planted the first human foot on another world. 

With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbed down the ladder and proclaimed: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." 

Image Credit: NASA

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2013 NASA Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected For Study

 

NASA has selected 12 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which aims to turn science fiction into fact.

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NASA's Hubble Sees a Stranger in the Crowd

The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is the largest of the Zodiac constellations, and the second largest overall after Hydra (The Water Snake). Its most appealing feature, however, is the sheer number of galaxies that lie within it. In this picture, among a crowd of face- and edge-on spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies, lies NGC 4866, a lenticular galaxy situated about 80 million light-years from Earth. 

Image of the week

This Envisat radar image features a chain of volcanoes called the Virunga Mountains that stretch across Rwanda's northern border with Uganda and east into the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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