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| Recipe for water: just add starlight Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:00:00 +0100 |
 ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour. |
| Cluster turns the invisible into the visible Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0100 |
 Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of the aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes that occur across the Universe. And there is more work to do. |
| Mars’s mysterious elongated crater Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0100 |
 Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars’s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a mystery. |
| ESA’s pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary – Invitation to a media briefing on 1 September 2010 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:42:00 +0100 |
 ESA PR 2010-19 Media representatives are cordially invited to a briefing on the occasion of ten years of scientific discoveries by ESA’s Cluster mission. |
| Instruments selected for Mars Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0100 |
 ESA PR-17 2010 ESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, methane could point to life on the Red Planet. |
