Earth and an eclipsed Moon

Earth and an eclipsed Moon

SMART-1, ESA’s first mission to the Moon, captured this series of unique images of our home planet Earth and the Moon during a total lunar eclipse on 28 October 2004, when SMART-1 was about 290 000 km away from Earth and about 660 000 km from the Moon. Featured on ESA...
BepiColombo solar array drive run-in

BepiColombo solar array drive run-in

This operation consisted of performing several rotations of the MTM solar array over its full movement range, to clean the solar array drive mechanism slip ring from contaminants accumulated during the long ground testing phase before launch.   Featured on ESA...