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  • Taking EarthCARE into orbit

    Taking EarthCARE into orbit

    ESA’s EarthCARE satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time).

    Developed as a cooperation between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite carries a set of four instruments to make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate.

    Credits: ESA/SpaceX

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  • Taking Earth’s temperature from space

    Taking Earth’s temperature from space

    Climate change exacerbates droughts by making them more frequent, longer, and more severe. This can have a wide range of impacts on the environment, agriculture, ecosystems and communities including water scarcity, crop failure and food shortages.

    The upcoming Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring, LSTM, mission will improve sustainable agricultural productivity in a world of increasing water scarcity and variability.

    The mission will carry a high spatial-temporal resolution thermal infrared sensor to provide observations of land-surface temperature.

    These data are key to understand and respond to climate variability, manage water resources for agricultural production, predict droughts and also to address land degradation.

    LSTM is one of six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions that ESA is developing on behalf of the EU. The missions will expand the current capabilities of the Copernicus Space Component – the world’s biggest supplier of Earth observation data.

    This video features interviews with Ana Bolea Alamanac, LSTM Mission Project Manager, Ilias Manolis, LSTM Mission Payload Manager and Itziar Barat, LSTM Mission System and Operations Manager.

    Credits: ESA – European Space Agency

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  • Taking the Next Giant Leap – Sooner on This Week @NASA – March 29, 2019

    Taking the Next Giant Leap – Sooner on This Week @NASA – March 29, 2019

    Accelerating our return to the Moon, another spacewalk outside the International Space Station, and testing our Mars Helicopter … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

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  • Pangaea 2016: Taking astronauts to other planets – on Earth

    Pangaea 2016: Taking astronauts to other planets – on Earth

    ESA is now training astronauts in identifying planetary geological features for future missions to the Moon, Mars and asteroids. This Pangaea course – named after the ancient supercontinent – will help astronauts to find interesting rock samples as well as to assess the most likely places to find traces of life on other planets.

    This video was made during the second part of the Pangaea course held in Lanzarote, one of the Spanish Canary Islands in 2016 with ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano, Pedro Duque and Matthias Maurer and features interviews with the instructors and astronauts.

    The students were tasked with interpreting geological features to understand the history of how the island formed. The goal is to help astronauts choose the best places to explore and collect rock samples.

    This session put into practice a week’s training in Bressanone, Italy, where they learned about Earth and planetary geological processes as well as how to recognise rocks and meteorites.

    The trio went on progressively difficult day trips, ending with a free exploration of the countryside searching for interesting samples while keeping in contact via radio with scientists at ‘mission control’.

    Lanzarote was chosen for this course because of its geological similarity with Mars, such as a volcanic origin, mild sedimentary processes owing to a dry climate, hardly any vegetation and a well-preserved landscape.

    More about the Pangeae course:
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  • ESA Euronews: Taking space tech down to Earth

    ESA Euronews: Taking space tech down to Earth

    This month’s Space focuses on startups in Europe that are finding everyday Earthly applications for space innovations.

    There’s a long tradition of transferring technology from one sector to another to improve life on our planet, and in the case of space that can lead to some unlikely links between science success stories such as the Philae lander, and the hunt for bedbugs in hotel rooms, or between the Smart-1 moon mission and the efficiency of geothermal energy. We visit two of the 11 ESA business incubation centres around Europe, one in Barcelona, the other near Oxford.

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    French: http://youtu.be/pzKfXTxrtCY
    German: http://youtu.be/EtbUUJ_6Uno
    Hungarian: http://youtu.be/SCqU49qNiqo
    Italian: http://youtu.be/dt87rFBw8EA
    Greek: http://youtu.be/TBbZ4yF3bY8
    Portuguese: http://youtu.be/8Xu-wAG-XTg
    Spanish: http://youtu.be/5Rr2fKSpEDc