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ESAC Virtual Tours
The CESAR Team wants to make ESAC and their most impressive control rooms accessible to you. Specially in this pandemic times when our main activities such as Teacher workshops and Space Science Experiences go on-line! You can find here the virtual tour news and below some videos/models complementing them
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ESAC |
tour | video | GAIA mission and Rosetta mission models visible |
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The CESAR observatories |
tour | video | CESAR Solar & Night sky telescopes collecting data for educational material and key astronomical events |
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The GNSS scientific operational room |
tour | model | Galileo is the European Union's Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS). Like the other global systems, Galileo provides radio signals for position, navigation and timing purposes. |
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The SMOS scientific control room
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tour |
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The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, launched on 2 November 2009, is one of the European Space Agency's Earth Explorer missions, which form the science and research element of the Living Planet Programme |
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The XMM-Newton scientific control room |
tour |
ESA's X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton is unique. It is the biggest scientific satellite ever built in Europe, its telescope mirrors are amongst the most powerful ever developed in the world, and with its sensitive cameras it can see much more than any previous X-ray satellite.
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Other interesting virtual tours developed by ESA