ESA Mission Updates
4 Mar 2004
(Source: European Space Agency)
Thursday, 04-Mar-2004 - Updates from ESA Science and Technology web site
HUBBLE
PHOTO RELEASE - V838 MONOCEROTIS REVISITED: SPACE PHENOMENON IMITATES ART [HEIC0405] 'Starry Night', Vincent van Gogh's famous painting, is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist's restless imagination, a new picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope bears remarkable similarities to the van Gogh work, complete with never-before-seen spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometres of interstellar space.
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=34790
ROSETTA
STATUS REPORT - Following the successful launch of the Rosetta spacecraft on Tuesday 2 March the mission specialists at ESOC have been bringing the spacecraft systems online. This first mission status report summarises the activities of the past couple of days.
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=34797
SMART-1
STATUS REPORT - ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft is gradually getting closer to the Moon. Over the next three weeks the spacecraft will enter a period of long eclipses due to the alignment of the Earth, Sun and spacecraft.
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=34800
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