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...contain liquid hydrocarbon. While it remains unclear whether the Huygens data on Titan, which has been likened to a frozen version of early Earth, can help answer the eternal question of how life evolved, scientists involved in the $3.3 billion joint effort between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Italy's space program (ASI) were ecstatic at the probe's successful landing. "It is a fascinating world," said Professor David Southwood, ESA's Director of science, "and we are now eagerly awaiting the scientific results...
...67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet and searching for the origins of life," says David Southwood, director of science at the European Space Agency (ESA), which is orchestrating the Rosetta project. "We're going out there, landing on a comet and doing our analysis in situ." Southwood and his colleagues at esa are indulging their obsession at a time of heightened interest in space - and heightened controversy about space exploration. The success of ESA...
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA...
BUDGET: $310 MILLION A member of the ESA, it also has its own program, focusing on robotic exploration, Earth observation and telecommunications...
...ESA Overshadowed for weeks by the U.S. rover Spirit, Europe's Mars Express - which has been orbiting the Red Planet since Dec. 25 - finally got its day in the sun. As well as relaying stunning close-ups of Mars, the orbiter detected ice at its south pole and identified water vapor in its atmosphere. The findings reinforce the idea that Mars may have supported life...