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B-roll interview clips (with O. Witasse, V.Formisano and S. Atreya) broadcast with the A-Roll video on ESA-Television. More & see video »

The future exploration of the Red planet is about to change considerably: ESA and NASA have agreed to joint programs, starting with missions planned for 2016 and 2018. One of the main objectives continues to be the search for liquid water and also to understand the origins of methane discovered by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter and other ground-based observatories five years ago. And underlying these two elements is… the quest for signs of life, past or present on Mars. The world’s experts on the subject recently met in Italy and Martian methane still remains an enigma, as featured in this special report produced for ESA-Television.

Coinciding with the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, production of a video-review for ESA-Television of ESA’s Earth Observation programmes and particularly the Earth Explorer series of missions. Opportunity to visit ESRIN again. More & see video »

With great pleasure, I’ve been working again on the Rosetta mission. For two reasons: ESA’s comet chaser will be skimming past Earth on 13 November for its last planetary flyby, and science teams held a workshop in Rome to prepare for next years big event, the flyby in July of the Lutetia asteroid. This ESA-Television video provided a preview of both events. More & see video »

Video report for ESA-TV about the status of the Herschel mission, recalling the ‘first test images’ obtained in June and never fully exploited PR-wise. It was an occasion to film at ESAC and meet members of the Science Operations team. More & see video »

After the months of video preparation for the Herschel Planck launch, I have been somewhat overwhelmed updating this site, with a considerable backlog. Here we have at last one of the Arianespace launch transmission inserts devoted to Planck. Other inserts will be added in the next few days. More & see video »

Earth’s twin sister gone wrong: Update and results from the Venus Express mission. More & see video »

Feature about Mercury and ESA’s mission Bepi-Colombo to explore the planet. More & see video »