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Earth from Space: Vietnam's 'nine-tailed dragon'
04-13-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Vietnam's Mekong Delta, located on the Indo-China Peninsula, is highlighted in this Envisat image. The delta's water source is the longest river in Southeast Asia, the seventh longest in Asia and the twelfth longest in the world – the Mekong.
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- Pioneering 3D view of near-Earth magnetic 'dance'
06-29-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Scientists have obtained the first-ever 3D picture of interconnected magnetic 'dances' in near-Earth space, known as magnetic reconnection events.
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- EuroNews looks at space debris
09-21-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
On the island of Tenerife, the Observatorio del Teide sits 2400 metres high on a volcano, intently scanning the Canarian night. Thousands of kilometres away, in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia region, one of the world's most powerful telescopes also looks up, similarly seeking tiny targets. Both telescopes have the same mission: to find and catalogue the millions of debris fragments that swarm in orbit near the Earth.
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- Planet Earth from Space to Place – ESA at UNESCO exhibition
10-17-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA has been invited to participate in the exhibition 'Planet Earth: from Space to Place' organised by UNESCO, during its General Conference, starting this week in Paris.
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- ESA's pair of astronauts back on Earth
12-22-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
ESA PR 49-2006. Space Shuttle Discovery landed in Cape Canaveral, Florida tonight at 23:32 CET (22:32 UTC/GMT), completing one of the most complex assembly missions to the International Space Station to date, and bringing back ESA's two astronauts, Christer Fuglesang and Thomas Reiter.
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- Earth from Space: Iceland: A land of fire and ice
04-05-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
This Envisat image features a snow-covered Iceland, a volcanic island famous for its volcanoes, glaciers, lakes, lava and hot springs.
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- Darker days during Arctic summer
06-16-2007 · Science News Online
Satellite observations indicate that Arctic regions reflected less sunlight into space in the summer of 2006 than in other recent years, a change that may exacerbate the warming of Earth's climate.
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- 'It might be life, Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with lifelike qualities
08-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Intriguing new evidence of lifelike structures that form from inorganic substances in space are revealed today in the New Journal of Physics. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation for the origin of life on earth.
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- European hot spots and fires identified from space
08-27-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Hot spots across Southeastern Europe from 21 to 26 August have been detected with instruments aboard ESA satellites, which have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth's surface for a decade.
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- Titan's icy climate mimics Earth's tropics
10-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid regions. These conditions reflect a cold mirror image of Earth's tropical climate, according to scientists at the University of Chicago.
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- Double Star mission extended
11-16-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Earlier this month, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) unanimously approved a nine-month extension of ESA's involvement in the China/ESA Double Star mission. Double Star is currently studying the Earth's magnetosphere - the natural protective shield surrounding our planet - and its interaction with the solar wind.
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