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  • Flight over Atlantis Chaos

    Flight over Atlantis Chaos

    Explore the Atlantis Chaos region of Mars, in the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere. The video showcases a myriad of features that reflect a rich geological history. The tour takes in rugged cliffs and impact craters, alongside parts of ancient shallow, eroded basins. See smooth plains scarred with wrinkled ridges, scarps and fracture lines that point to influence from tectonic activity. Marvel at ‘chaotic’ terrain – hundreds of small peaks and flat-topped hills that are thought to result from the slow erosion of a once-continuous solid plateau. This entire region may once have played host to vast volumes of water – look out for the evidence in the form of channels carved into steep-sided walls.

    Read more about this region here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Images/2015/07/Ancient_Atlantis

    Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGA)

  • Tribute to the Space Shuttle from the European astronauts

    Tribute to the Space Shuttle from the European astronauts

    Space Shuttle is perhaps the most complex technological system ever built. In 30 years, it has flown 135 times and helped humankind to dispatch and partially even return many satellites and deep-space probes, to build the International Space Station and to conduct out-of-this-world science. The Shuttle has transported also 24 European astronauts to Earth orbit on 25 missions.
    This video highlights these flights with European flavour – from STS-9 in 1983 to STS-134 in last May.

  • STS-135: Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Program

    STS-135: Final Launch of the Space Shuttle Program

    Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and crewmates Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:29 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 8. STS-135 is the final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program.
    The 12-day mission will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module filled with more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and spare parts to sustain space station operations after the shuttles are retired. STS-135 is the 135th shuttle flight, the 33rd flight for Atlantis and the 37th shuttle mission dedicated to station assembly and maintenance,

  • ESA Euronews: Transbordador espacial: el último viaje

    ESA Euronews: Transbordador espacial: el último viaje

    Un capítulo de la aventura espacial se cierra con el lanzamiento de la nave estadounidense Atlantis, con el que se pone punto y final a las misiones del transbordador. Ha pervivido durante 30 años, una historia de momentos felices y trágicos.

  • ESA Euronews: Addio, Space Shuttle

    ESA Euronews: Addio, Space Shuttle

    Si chiude un capitolo dell’epopea spaziale, con il lancio della navetta americana Atlantis che segna la fine delle missioni dello Space Shuttle. Una storia lunga trent’anni che ha conosciuto i suoi momenti di gloria e le sue tragedie.

  • ESA Euronews: Letzter Flug für das Space Shuttle

    ESA Euronews: Letzter Flug für das Space Shuttle

    Mit dem letzten Start der Weltraumfähre “Atlantis” geht zugleich ein Kapitel in der Geschichte der Weltraumfahrt zuende. Denn der 135. Space-Shuttle-Flug ist der Letzte seiner Art. Zurück liegen drei Jahrzehnte mit ihren Höhepunkten sowie mit ihren Tragödien. Mehr darüber in unserer Rubrik Space.

  • Shuttle Atlantis: From the Inside

    Shuttle Atlantis: From the Inside

    An unprecedented up close, inside look in high-definition of space shuttle Atlantis as it was readied for “towback” from Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway to Orbiter Processing Facility-1 following its May 26 landing on STS-132. After every shuttle landing, about 150 trained workers assist the crew out and prepare the shuttle for towing atop a large diesel-driven tractor to its processing hangar.

  • “Ice Team” Inspects NASA’s Shuttle Atlantis During STS-132 Launch Countdown

    “Ice Team” Inspects NASA’s Shuttle Atlantis During STS-132 Launch Countdown

    At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the Final Inspection Team, also known as the “Ice Team,” performs a walkdown of Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A during space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-132 launch countdown on May 14. The six-member team walks on every level of the pad’s fixed service structure, inspecting the shuttle, external fuel tank, solid rocket boosters, pad structure and ground equipment for signs of ice buildup, debris or anything else that might be amiss prior to launch. As part of the inspection, photos are taken and transmitted to the launch team for review.
    A videographer for NASA was included as a member of the team to capture the first-ever up close, high-definition video of this important and hazardous inspection process.