A second generation Meteosat weather satellite was launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on board an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Ariane 5 lifted off on July 5, 2012. ESA has developed the series of weather satellites in close cooperation with the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, Eumetsat.
Credit: ESA/Arianespace
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Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, and ESA Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, undocked from the International Space Station and landed safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
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SpaceX performed a full mission duration firing test of the Merlin 1D engine. The test took place at SpaceX\’s facilities in McGregor, Texas.
Credit: SpaceX
NASA\’s WISE (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer) has discovered fewer than previously thought brown dwarfs in our solar neighborhood.
Credit: NASA JPL
The colors in the video highlight the differences in Vesta\’s surface composition.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
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On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event: the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
Credit: NASA SDO
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