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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 27-31 July 2026.

1️⃣ Earth and Proba-3’s Coronagraph play hide and seek 🌍
2️⃣ Themis during wet dress rehearsal 🚀
3️⃣ Earth from Space: New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi 🌎
4️⃣ Wildfires in Europe produce aerosols ‘seen’ from space 🔥
5️⃣ Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026 🌊
6️⃣ Retroreflector made by a student team from Ruhr University Bochum 🧑‍🎓
7️⃣ Ground displacement following Venezuela earthquakes 🌎

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Major rehearsal takes Themis one step closer to flight 🚀

Reuseable rocket stage demonstrator Themis was loaded with several tonnes of liquid nitrogen chilled down to –200°C simulating the sequence of events to take place before a liftoff… and after a landing.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/…

📸 SSC Space–Mattias Forsberg

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Wildfires continue to rage across south-west France and central Spain 🔥

On 26 July, Sentinel-2 captured extensive burn scars near Bordeaux and around our Cebreros ground station.

Copernicus satellite data and emergency mapping services are helping authorities monitor the situation and support response efforts.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/07/Raging_w…

📸 Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 20-24 July 2026.

1️⃣ Moonset 🌔
2️⃣ Plato's electronics ready for space ✅
3️⃣ The silicon brains steering next-generation antennas 📶
4️⃣ ESA Academy's Navigation Training Course in Redu, Belgium 📡
5️⃣ Sentinel-3C unpacked 🛰️
6️⃣ Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork 🌏
7️⃣ FLEX on the dolly 🛰️
8️⃣ Madrid, Spain 🌍
9️⃣ Commissioning of Galileo L14 satellites ✅
🔟 Canadian wildfires near Fort Simpson 🔥

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Plato's electronics ready for space ✅

Our terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside the Maxwell Test Chamber at ESTEC, demonstrating that its electronic equipment is fit to work in space.

The shielded enclosure features conducting metal walls, floor, and ceiling that form a Faraday cage, screening out all external interference. Its 9 m-high interior is lined floor to ceiling with foam spikes that absorb electrical signals and sounds to mimic the void of space.

Thanks to the tests run in the Maxwell Test Chamber, engineers verified that Plato’s many electronic systems can work together in space without interference.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/07/Plato_s_…

📸 ESA - R. Moorkens O'Reilly

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Who are you rooting for tonight? ⚽️

A special Sunday deserves a view from above. Two Copernicus Sentinel-3 images, showing Spain and Argentina from opposite sides of the Atlantic.

📸 Image contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 13-17 July 2026.

1️⃣ Hubble discovers first of star cluster’s missing black holes ✨
2️⃣ European Service Module team meets Artemis II crew 🌖
3️⃣ MTG-I2 passes its ‘fit check’ ✅
4️⃣ The floor of Mars’s Kaiser Crater from above 🔴
5️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3 head to launch site 🛰️
6️⃣ His Majesty King Charles III meets ESA representatives at the Harwell campus 🤝
7️⃣ Minister of Finance and Economy Andrzej Domański, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher 🤝
8️⃣ Test firing at brand new green chemical propulsion lab 🥼
9️⃣ Earth from Space: Guinea-Bissau 🌍
🔟 Artemis II astronauts visit ESA 🧑‍🚀

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Yesterday, the Artemis II crew visited our technical heart in the Netherlands (ESTEC) to meet the teams behind Orion’s European Service Module, which powered their historic journey around the Moon and back. 🌕🚀

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_…

📸 ESA-P. Servent

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 06-10 July 2026.

1️⃣ Centaurus A (MIRI and NIRCam image) ✨
2️⃣ Quasars discovered by Euclid 🌌
3️⃣ Sophie testing E4D's resistance training in space 🧑‍🚀
4️⃣ First light from the Hellenic Fire System 🔥
5️⃣ MTG-I2 is unboxed at Europe’s Spaceport 🛰️
6️⃣ BepiColombo Mercury arrival phase mission control team ✅
7️⃣ Earth from Space: Great Bear Lake, Canada 🌎
8️⃣ AMAT Team at ESA’s ESOC 🙌

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On its 4th science anniversary, Webb has turned its gaze towards Centaurus A. ✨

Thanks to its high resolution we can now study the galaxy star by star, reconstructing when different events in its history happened.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb…

📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), M. Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI), CC BY 4.0 INT

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