The NPP joined the ESTEC Open Day on 12 October and what a success it was! This year, ESTEC celebrated its 50 year existence, drawing close to 10,000 people to the technical heart of the European Space Agency to Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The annual open day also marked the ending of the NL Space Week. …
They’re older than our Earth, as small as a grain of sand, and might just be lying in your gutter: micrometeorites. Every year, tons of space dust enter our atmosphere, and a small portion of it lands on Earth—as tiny pebbles that can tell us something about the formation of the solar system, and perhaps …
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