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Congratulations to
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#Chandrayaan3 team!👏
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Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3
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#Chandrayaan3 update:
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tracking station support begins 12:21 BST/13:21 CEST.
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livestream begins 12:50 BST/13:50 CEST 👇
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Chandrayaan-3 Mission: All set to initiate the Automatic Landing Sequence (ALS). Awaiting the arrival of Lander Module (LM) at the designated point, around 17:44 Hrs. IST. Upon receiving the ALS command, the LM activates the throttleable engines for powered descent. The… Show more
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📢Breaking space news! 🧬The NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. 🌊 Analysis indicates that this carbon likely originated in Europa’s subsurface ocean and was not delivered by other external sources.
A blue-and-white sphere against a black background is somewhat reminiscent of the famous “Blue Marble” picture of Earth from space. With fuzzy, diffuse edges, this sphere features darker blue patches in most of the northern hemisphere facing the viewer. One, large, crescent-shaped, white patch extends along the left side of the southern hemisphere facing the viewer, and a larger, blobby, white patch covers the middle latitudes of the right side of the southern hemisphere. Lighter blue regions border these white patches in the south.
ESA Webb Telescope and 4 others
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Moment of impact...
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#AsteroidImpact confirmed!!!🛰️💥🪨 Congratulations, @NASA! #DARTMission is no more, but we excitedly await the results. Next, ESA's #HeraMission flies out to study DART's impact. #PlanetaryDefense 🌍 #AvengeTheDinosaurs🦕
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We are very sad to learn of the passing of Alexei Leonov, pioneering Russian cosmonaut and the first spacewalker, aged 85.
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Госкорпорация «Роскосмос» с прискорбием сообщает о том, что на 86-м году жизни скончался космонавт № 11, первый в мире человек, вышедший в открытый космос, Дважды Герой Советского Союза Алексей Архипович Леонов.
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Our New Norcia antenna will serve as a back-up for
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Another ESA station has tuned in to the #Chandrayaan_3 mission! ESA’s 35-metre deep space antenna in New Norcia, Australia, will provide tracking support during the Lander Module’s descent to the lunar surface. First contact with the module was established yesterday.
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"Space, here I come" - remembering world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who showed us there are no limits to achieving our dreams. Our thoughts are with his family.
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We are setting sail for safer space ⛵️ Space is full of junk. We want to establish a zero debris policy, which means if you put a spacecraft in orbit you have the responsibility to remove it. But how are we going to achieve this? Find out below 👇
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#DestinationJupiter: Confirmation of Solar Array Deployment, #ESAJuice is on its way! 👏 Thanks all for following. Stay tuned to
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ESA's Juice mission
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We are on the way to #Jupiter and its ocean worlds! 🤩 With the critical milestone of solar array deployment completed, we have a mission! FULL STORY 👉esa.int/Science_Explor #ExploreFarther #DestinationJupiter
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For those of you asking - yes it is water ice. Mars Express first detected water on #Mars in 2004, see our release at the time esa.int/Our_Activities. More recently, the spacecraft detected liquid water under the planet’s south pole, see: esa.int/Our_Activities
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A beautiful #winter wonderland... on #Mars! This ice-filled crater was imaged by our Mars Express spacecraft. Korolev crater is 82 kilometres across and found in the northern lowlands of Mars. More images: esa.int/Our_Activities
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Ah copy that,
@coldplay
, we have acquisition of signal. Standing by...🛰️
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SIGNAL FOUND. EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMS ESTABLISHED. @thom_astro @esa #ISS #missionalpha #higherpower BROADCAST INCOMING: smarturl.it/extraterrestri 00.00 BST / 01.00 CET FRIDAY 19.00 ET / 16.00 PT THURSDAY
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You may have heard of the dark side of the moon but have you heard about the toxic side? 🤔 The “lunar hay fever”, as NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt described it during the Apollo 17 mission, created symptoms in all 12 people who have stepped on the Moon. Find out more 👇
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The first three spacewalks of 2020 are set for this month:
@Astro_Jessica
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@Astro_Christina
will make the first two spacewalks on 15 and 20 January. The third will be on 25 Jan., with
@AstroDrewMorgan
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@astro_luca
finishing their repair of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
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The Exp 61 crew is gearing up for three spacewalks set for this month while working a variety of space science today. Read more... go.nasa.gov/36DDQuK
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😮They're in!
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's two instruments have captured their first test images! 👇
A zoom-in on Euclid's NISP first image (4% of full field of view) demonstrating the extraordinary level of detail that NISP is already achieving. We see spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters and much more.
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ESA's Euclid mission
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A side-by-side composition that reads 'Euclid early commissioning test images'. We see a field of many stars and galaxies, in black and white on the left and in orange hues on the right. The image on the left was taken by the VISible instrument (VIS). The image on the right was taken by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP). They are on the same scale, with the full versions of these images each being seven by seven arcminutes. Because the images are largely unprocessed, some unwanted artefacts remain – for example the cosmic rays that appear as white lines shooting straight across, seen especially in the VIS image.
Image taken with the VISible instrument (VIS) and composed of 36 squares on the left, arranged in 6 by 6 squares, and one bigger square on the right. The image on the left shows the full VIS field of view, with the zoom-in on the right (showing one detector split into four quadrants) demonstrating the extraordinary level of detail that VIS is already achieving. We see spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more. But the area of sky that this zoom-in covers is actually only about a quarter of the width and height of the full Moon.
Image taken with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) and composed of 16 squares on the left, arranged in 4 by 4 squares, and one bigger square on the right. The image on the left shows the full NISP field of view, with the zoom-in on the right (4% of NISP’s full field of view) demonstrating the extraordinary level of detail that NISP is already achieving. We see spiral and elliptical galaxies, nearby and distant stars, star clusters, and much more. But the area of sky that it covers is actually only about a quarter of the width and height of the full Moon.
🥁 They're here... the first test images from the #DarkUniverse 🕵️ detective give us a tantalising glimpse of what is yet to come from a fully calibrated mission later this autumn 🤩 Explore the #ESAEuclid images here 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor and below 👇
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That receding crescent... “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan Farewell
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, and goodnight.
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