Green light for GMES Copernicus

Europe's ambitious global environmental monitoring programme will now be able to move into operation thanks to the European Parliament's approval of the multiannual financial framework budget for 2014–20. 

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Mars on Earth

Technology image of the week: Dutch students explore ESA's 'Mars Yard', designed for planetary rover testing

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At the foot of the Red Planet’s giant volcano

Hundreds of individual lava flows are seen frozen in time on the flanks of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System.

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