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Moon facts: gravity, far side and temperature

Moon facts: age and composition

Moon facts: size and distance

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 1. Moonwalkers

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 2. Spacecraft

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 3. Travel time

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 4. Communications

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 5. Moon drift

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 7. Water

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 8. Atmosphere

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 9. Resources

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 10. Flashes

Proba-2's view from Earth orbit of an annular solar eclipse

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 6. Moon dust

Smile arrives at the Port of Amsterdam by truck

Smile’s ride to French Guiana

Smile is loaded into a ship at the Port of Amsterdam

View of Smile in the Maritime Nantaise’s Colibri ship

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

The stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiral

Smile team poses in front of the spacecraft container

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during one of her first workouts at the start of the εpsilon mission.

Smile mission milestones

The Gateway concept

Uranus (January 2025)

Uranus collage (January 2025, annotated)

NASA Dynamics Explorer images the northern lights

Smile's ultraviolet vision

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

Dark galaxy CDG-2 near Perseus Cluster (annotated)

ROSAT X-ray image of sky

ROSAT X-ray image of sky

Smile's X-ray vision

Smile's science toolbox

Sophie Adenot entering the International Space Station

Crew-12 inside the International Space Station

The SpaceX Dragon carrying four Crew-12 members, including ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, nears the International Space Station for a docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port.

Radio contact with the International Space Station – facts and figures

Radio contact with the International Space Station

Crew-12 Walkout with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot

εpsilon launch

Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903

ESA medical doctor Sarah Gaier tests water from the recycling system at Concordia station in Antarctica

The Egg Nebula

Sophie Adenot in her intravehicular suit

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