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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 05-09 October 2026.
1️⃣ Webb captures commotion from nebula’s stellar jets 🌌
2️⃣ Engineers follow up rover's moves in desert 🏜️
3️⃣ Sophie Adenot is back on Earth 🧑🚀
4️⃣ The Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud as seen by Mars Express 🛰️
5️⃣ Destination sighted: Hera's first glimpse of Didymos ☄️
6️⃣ Lunar Pathfinder 🛰️
7️⃣ Italy and beyond imaged by Sentinel-3C 🛰️
8️⃣ MPAc: measuring the Moon with lasers 🌝
9️⃣ IAC 2026: Europe’s exploration ambition
🔟 Géraldine Naja with the WIA-Europe award 🏅
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2026.
1️⃣ Galaxies in a cosmic house of mirrors ✨
2️⃣ Earth from Space: Typhoon Surigae 🌀
3️⃣ Smile’s first ultraviolet image shows auroral substorm 🌍
4️⃣ Astronauts meet meteorites 🪨
5️⃣ Tiny thrusters 3D-printed in space
6️⃣ Eaglet II launch progress for Italy’s IRIDE programme 🛰️
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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A new view of the northern lights ✨
Our Smile mission is now ready for science, and its ultraviolet camera has already captured a substorm rippling through the aurora around Earth’s North Pole.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Smil…
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A successful Earth flyby has improved Juice’s course to Jupiter 🛰️
During its flyby of Earth on 28 September 2026, our Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) captured this stunning view of Earth. The gravity-assist manoeuvre put the spacecraft on course for its next Earth flyby in 2029 and its eventual arrival at Jupiter in 2031.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juic…
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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 21-25 Sep 2026.
1️⃣ Pikachu in the Cupola ⚡️
2️⃣ Myotones: Studying muscle adaptation to weightlessness 🧑🚀
3️⃣ Space explorers in the land of volcanoes 🪨
4️⃣ Earth from Space: Venetian Lagoon 🌍
5️⃣ Industry Space Days 2026 🤝
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 14-18 Sep 2026.
1️⃣ Star-forming region IC 348 ✨
2️⃣ A galaxy spinning out of sync 🌌
3️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3C lofted into orbit 🚀
4️⃣ Raspberry ripples near Mars’s south pole 🩷
5️⃣ Thwaits Glacier, Antarctica 🧊
6️⃣ Earth from Space: Laguna Colorada 🌎
7️⃣ Main Control Room at ESA's ESOC 🧑💻
8️⃣ Group Picture beginning of the Consolidation Phase of ESA Low-LEO Pre-Operational and De-Risk Activities 🤝
9️⃣ Company awards at Industry Space Days 2026 🏆
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 07-11 Sep 2026.
1️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for launch 🛰️🛰️
2️⃣ Spectrum liftoff close up 🚀
3️⃣ Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3 🌋
4️⃣ Arctic isolation for science ⛵️
5️⃣ MTM separation at Mission Control 🥹
6️⃣ Biomass images mangrove degradation in the Niger Delta 🌳
7️⃣ CubeSat for safer seas and cleaner orbits ready to launch 🥼
8️⃣ ESA’s High-Level Forum with Industry 2026 🤝
9️⃣ Teams at ESOC during ESA’s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launch and early orbit (LEOP) simulations 👏
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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Help us name Hera’s dinosaur mascot! 🦖
Our Hera mission is heading to the Didymos asteroid system to help advance planetary defence. And now its dinosaur mascot needs a name.
Why a dinosaur? Because dinosaurs didn't have a space agency when an asteroid struck Earth... but we do.
Share your best name ideas and you could win a place at Hera’s arrival celebration this November.
Learn more here 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Name_our_dino_ESA_s_…
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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026.
1️⃣ EVA-99: Sophie Adenot working in the vacuum of space 🧑🚀
2️⃣ Hubble's superbubble scene 🌌
3️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view 🛰️
4️⃣ Decagon on Saturn’s south pole (colour image) 🪐
5️⃣ Samba's reentry 🥹
6️⃣ Tango's reentry 🥹
7️⃣ Roman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky 🚀
8️⃣ MAGPIE signing ceremony 🤝
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…
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Mercury Transfer Module separation confirmed! 📡 ✅
After nearly eight years in space and billions of kilometres travelled, #BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated.
Signal acquired via our Cebreros deep-space antenna confirms the spacecraft is healthy and operating as expected.
The MPO and Mio spacecrafts are now on their way to Mercury orbit insertion on 21 November.
Farewell, MTM. Mercury awaits. ☀️🛰️
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