In ESA’s Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt in Duitsland werde, signalen opgevangen van de Amerikaanse Marslander Phoenix. Ze waren opgeslagen door de ESA-sonde Mars Express die rond de Rode Planeet draait.
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SPACE.com – PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has returned its first imagesfrom the surface of Mars, showing that the probe’s vital solar arrays havesuccessfully deployed and giving scientists their first up-close glimpse of theMartian arctic surface.
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SPACE.com – The $250million initial public stock offering (IPO) planned by satellite Earthobservation imagery provider DigitalGlobe Inc. will give investors anopportunity to make side-by-side comparisons of the Longmont, Colo.-basedcompany with its principal competitor, GeoEye Inc. of Dulles, Va.
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SPACE.com – A potentially historicchange is occurring on Jupiter. An upstart storm now rivals the gas giant’s BigRed Spot as king of storms, astronomers announced last week.
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AFP – China launched a weather satellite Tuesday designed to improve the accuracy of forecasts during the Beijing Olympic Games this August, state press said.
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Following a formidable 106-day trek across the Arctic, which ended with the two Arctic Arc expedition members relying on Envisat images to guide them safely through disintegrating sea-ice, intrepid polar explorer Alain Hubert recently visited ESA to handover a unique set of snow-depth measurements.
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SPACE.com – PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s PhoenixMars Lander survived a fiery plunge through the Martian atmosphere Sunday tomake a three-point landing on the red planet’s arctic plains, where it beamedback its first images to the delight of mission scientists.
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Reuters – A sharp-eyed Mars orbiter snapped an image of sister probe Phoenix descending through Martian skies toward a polar landing site to search for water and assess conditions for life, mission managers said on Monday.
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AP – Fresh images sent back by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander during its first full day operating in the Martian northern polar region showed most of its science instruments in good health, mission scientists said.
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Beginning late on 25 May, Mars Express will execute a series of pre-programmed commands specially designed to support NASA’s Phoenix lander. The ESA spacecraft will conduct a high-speed slew, enabling it to track Phoenix as it enters the martian atmosphere.
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