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Mars500 facility in Moscow
Media opportunity: ESA presents European participants in 520-day simulated mission to Mars
 
12 March 2010   ESA PR 2010-05 A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape. The Mars500 experiment, as long as a real journey to Mars, will be second to none as the ultimate test of human endurance.
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Frank De Winne demonstrates the experiment from the ISS
A lesson from space: capillarity in action
 
9 March 2010   In space, many things work differently, but not always. Take the movement of liquid in fine tubes. Gravity has something to do with this capillary action, but what? Students using ESA’s 'Take Your Classroom into Space' kit can now find out.
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Details of Phobos’s surface
Phobos flyby success
 
4 March 2010   Mars Express encountered Phobos last night, smoothly skimming past at just 67 km, the closest any manmade object has ever approached Mars’ enigmatic moon. The data collected could help unlock the origin of not just Phobos but other ‘second generation’ moons.
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