The Metop-SGA1 satellite will launch on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (local time 12 August at 21:37 DST), carrying among other instruments the state-of-the-art multispectral radiometer METimage.

On 24 July 2025, the final experiment in the Surface Avatar mission took place. A total of four robots in the DLR Mars laboratory in Oberpfaffenhofen were commanded by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim on ...

The German Space Agency at DLR (formerly DLR Space Administration) acts as Germany’s space agency and, in this capacity, implements the Federal Government’s space strategy. It has approximately 300 ...

Between the trenches and the adjacent lowlands, scattered remnants of a once-continuous rock layer – which has not yet been completely eroded – characterise the landscape. These include the many ...

At 600 kilometres wide and 24 kilometres tall, Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the Solar System. To the north lies the crescent-shaped aureole of the Acheron Fossae, an area marked by prominent ...

In the transition from the Martian highlands in the west of the tectonically shaped Acheron Fossae region to the northern lowlands (north is to the right in this image), a high plateau with a very ...

Partially molten rock masses – or magma bubbles – rising from the rocky mantle of Mars, exerted so much pressure on the surface of the Tharsis region from below that the rigid rocky crust was ...

North of the giant Olympus Mons volcano lies an area almost the size of Germany, shaped heavily by tectonic forces and subsequently the deposition of rubble and debris by glaciers: Acheron Fossae – a ...

Within ESA’s Sentinel Users Preparation (SUP) initiative, this project aims to develop and validate concepts for the integrated use of data from two new missions, CHIME and LSTM. The combination of ...

DLR's HRSC stereo camera onboard Mars Express uses its nine sensors to image the Martian surface at various angles across the flight path. The colour scale in the upper right shows elevation values ...

The consequences of various geological processes can be studied in the western part of the Acheron Fossae region – an area strongly influenced by volcanism and the associated tectonic processes.

The Smart City Expo World Congress will take place from 4 to 6 November 2025.