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My name is Morgane Haller and I am currently a student at the ESTACA engineering school in Paris-Saclay, starting to study in a space-related field in two months. I got to know this space organization through a member of the […]
On Friday, 05th July, we went to ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array), our last stop on our #MeetESO tour. ALMA is located close to San Pedro de Atacama at about 3,000 m and over 5,000 m altitude. A visit of […]
After an exciting day on La Silla and an amazing & beautiful solar eclipse we left the mountain to drive per bus through the night to Paranal. We arrived there in the early morning, in the middle of the Atacama […]
La Silla is located at the outskirts of the Atacama Desert and is the first ESO location inaugurated 50 years ago in 1969. Several telescopes including also non ESO-telescopes are distributed at 2,400 m altitude. ESO is currently operating the […]
The Moon will start to cover the Sun tomorrow on 2nd July 2019 at 15:23:51 local time La Silla/Chile ( 21:23:51 CEST). About an hour later at 16:39:24 (22:39:34 CEST) the short totality phase will follow. This is an unique […]
A very passionate presentation about the most recent OeWF analogue mission in Oman had inspired me. Since the moment I could think about career options, I wanted to become an astronaut. A dream cherished by many children but which may […]
Tomorrow, my trip to Chile starts. A plane will take me from Rome in about 16 hours to Santiago de Chile, were I will meet my MeetESO buddies. On Monday, 1st July we will then travel by bus to our […]
Early morning, Innsbruck. While at home at this hour I would probably start my morning with a cup of coffee, I find myself running in the mountains, passing a beautiful castle. To my right is Anika – a Microbiologist from […]
I thought it would get easier. During the selection process we were tested, we were pushed to our limits to see how we would perform. Physically of course, mentally goes without saying. But also psychologically. When I received the call […]
How to train an analog astronaut? Anika Mehlis shares some insights of the #classof2019 trainingl
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