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XMM campaign
Spacecraft
 
Selected articles covering from how a mission is chosen, designed, built and tested, through to getting into space and what happens when the mission is over.
 
   
 
Exploring space
Astronomy/cosmology
 
Selected articles covering objects and phenomena in the Universe, and the observational methods we use to study them.
 
   
 
Biology/chemistry
 
Astrobiology is about how life begins and evolves, and if it can exist anywhere else other than Earth. Astrochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in space, especially those of organic molecules needed for life as we know it.
 
   
 
Fundamental physics
 
Selected articles explaining some basic physics, and related effects, and some of the more abtract concepts which are thought to govern the Universe.
 
   
 
Comet Halley depicted on the Bayeux tapestry
History of space science
 
Selected articles documenting how and when things happened, the stories behind some of the great discoveries in astronomy and space science, and the people who made them.
 
   
   
 
Last update: 15 June 2005
 
 
 
Looking at Mars
ESA's comet chaser
SMART-1
At Saturn and TitanViews on approach to Saturn
 
 
 
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