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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Successfully takes off Meteosat-10



The European satellite is designed to try to improve weather forecasting.

The third satellite Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3), the tenth of the Meteosat family, today successfully took off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana).

The European satellite is designed to try to improve weather forecasts and was launched with an Ariane 5 rocket, also carrying a telecommunications satellite for internet services, the EchoStar 17, with coverage in North America.

An Ariane 5 launches two satellites from Kourou


The Ariane was  launched with a gross  weight take-off of more than 9.5 tons. AP
This is 49 consecutive successful launch of Ariane.
It was launched with the mission of putting into orbit two satellites transfer gestational the weather observation.

Two satellites, EchoStar seventeenth and MSG-3, were successfully put into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket that took off Thursday night from the Kourou base, 

Mars Express reveals complex geological history of Mars


The probe photographed last April Melas Dorsa, a volcanic region south of Valles Marineris canyon.
Captured wrinkle ridges, some faults that cross and surrounded by an elliptical crater ejects butterfly-shaped, with the appearance of being liquid.