Fly over ExoMars landing site
In preparation for the ExoMars rover Mars landing, scientists are creating 3D models (called Digital Terrain Models, or DTM) of the terrain in Oxia Planum.
Read more →In preparation for the ExoMars rover Mars landing, scientists are creating 3D models (called Digital Terrain Models, or DTM) of the terrain in Oxia Planum.
Read more →On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →With everything from eclipses to rare sighting of Mercury, 2019 is a great year for casting your eyes upwards and into the night sky!
Read more →For the first time since 1866, on January 31st 2018 there is a pretty special lunar treat in store for us – a super blue blood moon! Let’s find out what that is.
Read more →How do astronauts celebrate Christmas on the ISS?
Read more →For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
Read more →December 3rd, 2017 marks the first in a trilogy of super moons about to occur, but what is a super moon?
Read more →Everybody wonders it, so we thought we’d answer it … just how exactly do astronauts use the toilet in space?
Read more →Find out more about Britain’s first astronaut, Dr. Helen Sharman.
Read more →A huge crater named Ismenia Patera exists on the Red Planet. But where did it come from?
Read more →Mars’s atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than our home planet’s. Find out one theory about why it’s so thin.
Read more →Ready for some sky-gazing? With eclipses and meteor showers to spare, it’s going to be an exciting year!
Read more →Why did Mars change from blue to red? This video by a National Geographic explorer explains what happened.
Read more →Find out all about ESA’s ExoMars rover, which will travel to Mars in July 2020 to look for signs of life.
Read more →For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
Read more →Mars might be about 225 million kilometres away from Earth but it’s still our closest neighbouring planet.
Read more →Saturday 18th June is the big day when Tim Peake returns to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. Tim will return in a Soyuz capsule, along with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra. He’s due to land in Kazakhstan at 10.15am BST.
Read more →Growing plants in space is an important area of research – especially as we need to explore how we might be able to grow food on planets such as Mars.
Read more →This month, our Principia Mission Space Diary investigates some of the things astronaut Tim Peake might see in space, like the planets in our solar system.
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