Mars Express

Mission overview

Mars Express is ESA's long-lived Mars orbiter, mapping the planet and its moons.

Detected water ice and mapped the surface and subsurface of Mars.

Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
BepiColomboMercury	Orbiter	ESA	2018-10-20	En route
Venus ExpressVenus	Orbiter	ESA	2005-11-09	Completed
JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)Jupiter and its icy moons	Orbiter	ESA	2023-04-14	En route
RosettaComet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko	Orbiter and lander	ESA	2004-03-02	Completed
Solar OrbiterThe Sun	Solar observatory	ESA	2020-02-10	Active
GaiaSun–Earth L2	Astrometry observatory	ESA	2013-12-19	Completed

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European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.

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