The Rosetta space probe's long trek to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...some as large as mountains, some even larger, that orbit the Sun in much the same way as planets. "These 'b...o on the comet's surface, Rosetta will continue to orbit Churyumov-Gerasimenko and together they will spend the next seventeen months flying towards the Sun....New X-ray sources speed protein crystallography
...unches of electrons are kept in a roughly circular orbit by magnetic deflecting and focusing structures. At Cornell, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) is the X-ray source for CHESS. Usage of synchrotron radiation has grown steadily over the past three deca...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...lly reached its assigned station, in geostationary orbit 36,000 km above the Congo Basin. During its launch...ear-real time In addition, during each and every orbit Envisat instruments provide continuously updated measurements of many of the fastest-changing compon...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
...mosphere. From a single platform in a 450 km polar orbit a lidar (laser radar) will acquire data on aerosol...from vegetation. From a near-polar 670 km altitude orbit SPECTRA will collect data over a selection of regions representative of all the Earth's major biomes...DELTA mission heading to ISS with Dutch ESA astronaut
...minutes of propelled flight, the Soyuz TMA-4 is in orbit and it will now take the crew, Kuipers, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Edward Fincke, about two days to reach the ISS. They are scheduled to dock at 07:00 CET on 21 April, with the hatch opening at 08:25. Kuipers will be Flight ...ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
... of the ESA Scientific Campaign Unit. "But once in orbit we found both Proba and CHRIS performed well above expectations, and so we put out an Announcement of Opportunity for scientists interested in making use of CHRIS data. Some 60 different groups responded, and we are hearing about their projects durin......emperature goes up around the area surrounding the orbit of the eye due to increased blood flow, telling us that our subject is experiencing some sort of emotional distress. This periorbital area is the facial area affected the most from blood flow redistribution during anxious states." Since current co...