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Mercury in a new light! ✨ The DLR-built MERTIS on Bepi captured Mercury in mid-infrared wavelengths for the first time during BepiColombo’s fifth flyby. 🛰️ The observations provide information on the planet’s surface composition. ℹ️: dlr.de/en/latest/news…

The first images from the Copernicus EU #Sentinel1 C satellite are here! 📸 Svalbard 📸 Amsterdam and the region of Flevoland 📸 Brussels Fun fact: Brussels was the subject of the first radar image captured by Sentinel-1A in April 2014.

Orion splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on this day in 2022, at the end of its 25.5-day mission around the Moon on #Artemis I, totaling 1.4M mi (2.6M km). After investigating how the heat shield fared, we are preparing for Artemis II, launching 2026. More:

Getting close now! During the gravity assist, the Lucy spacecraft will approach from the direction of the Sun, which means observers on Earth will not be able to see Lucy approaching, as it will be lost in the Sun’s glare. But observers in certain locations may be able to spot it

Hello again, Lucy! 🛰️👋 Today at 5:15 CET, NASA’s #LucyMission completed a gravity assist at Earth. 🌍 This manoeuvre, the second since launch, has set the spacecraft on the way to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. 🌠 DLR is involved in the mission's scientific activities.

It's time for the Juice Bar! What has been going on with Juice? 🥵 We are on our way to the hottest point of the mission on 1 January 2025, when #ESAJuice reaches the closest distance to the Sun, at just 0.64 AU. The spacecraft is getting warmer, but everything is still well

This special exhibit will also take a look at our next sample return mission… the Martian Moons eXploration (#MMX) mission! MMX is scheduled to return to Earth in FY 2031, bringing a sample from the Martian moon, Phobos, to add to this incredible resource.

🌪️ Windy Wednesday 🌪️ A big paper from DLR - English Leonardo Airbus Space & European Space Agency "Performance of the UV laser transmitter during ESA’s Doppler wind lidar mission Aeolus" A groundbreaking achievement in Earth observation and space laser technology 🚨 opg.optica.org/ao/fulltext.cf…

Members of European Space Agency's Astronaut Reserve—Sara García Alonso 🇪🇸, Andrea Patassa 🇮🇹, Arnaud Prost 🇫🇷, Dr. Amelie Schoenenwald 🇩🇪, and Aleš Svoboda 🇨🇿—have completed their first training phase! Here’s what they’ve been up to: ✔️ Spacecraft systems and operations 🛰️ ✔️ Biology & lab skills for

DLR wishes you a happy holiday season and a smooth launch into the new year! 🎄🚀 📸: Anton Hallman for DLR

Why is Earth’s closest neighbour, Venus, so different compared to our planet? 🤔 The ESA_Envision mission aims to answer this question by providing us with a holistic view of the planet, from its history to its activity & climate. Discover more 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

"On the lunar surface, astronauts and robots work hand in hand…" 🤖👨‍🚀 Together with Matthias Maurer and Thomas Pesquet, our robotics team put on a show at LUNA, European Space Agency and DLR - English's simulated lunar environment, showing us a glimpse of our future on the Moon 🌑blogs.esa.int/exploration/ma…

👃Sniff Sniff…can you smell methane? Humans can’t, but the helicopter-towed HELiPOD probe can 🚁 After the Nord Stream leaks in 2022, we performed urgent measurements to understand the damage. New papers in nature and Nature Communications share the results: dlr.de/en/latest/news…

Spartan Space in cooperation with the European Space Agency conducted ergonomic trials to support the development of an airlock for a lunar surface habitat. The tests were carried out at the ESA- DLR - English "LUNA" Facility, a unique environment designed to simulate lunar surface conditions.

👋 Meet the team behind the ESA's EarthCARE mission Data, Innovation & Science Cluster (DISC). This international group of experts is working to ensure the best quality for all the different EarthCARE data products: earth.esa.int/eogateway/spot…

For MMX to land safely on Phobos, we need information on the moon’s gravity and surface topology. These are calculated to create image maps showing slope, altitude and gravitational acceleration, which are then used to help us select landing sites! 🔗: jlpeda.jaxa.jp/en/product/arc…