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Titan’s north pole is surrounded by lakes

16 january 2007
It would appear that Earth is no longer the only planet in the solar system with liquid on its surface. Radar imagery obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on its flyby of Titan on 22 July 2006 provides evidence that the Saturnian moon’s north pole is surrounded by numerous lakes.

Tech for Food

12 January 2007

An international forum for new technologies and the fight against hunger

Among its many goals, the United Nations aims to reduce by half the proportion of the world’s population suffering from hunger between 1990 and 2015.

A studious start to the year for COROT

10 January 2007
Since COROT was powered up on 2 January, work has begun to calibrate its light sensors. The sensor calibration process, which paradoxically takes place in total darkness, is designed to check the detector arrays pixel by pixel.

COROT’s Christmas gift to CNES teams

28 December 2006

COROT enters home straight

20 December 2006

Calipso flying high

Keeping an eye on epidemics from space

5 december 2006

Monitoring high-risk areas ...

COROT fuels up

4 December 2006

First light from IASI

28 November 2006

Better weather forecasting

Launched on 19 October on Europe’s MetOp satellite, the IASI spectrometer will observe and measure infrared radiation emitted by Earth.

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