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EDUCATION & KNOWLEDGE
PANORAMA
EXCELLENT RESEARCH
Rosetta mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) is researching
the history of how our solar system was formed.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) played a major
role in building the Philae lander and runs the lander
control centre which oversaw the daring landing on
a comet, a task never before accomplished.
Weight:
Dimension:
Landing:
100 kg
1 x 1 x 0.8 m
21 November 2014
Rosetta probe
The probe travelled
through space for
ten years to install
Philae on the Churyumov-Gerasimenko
comet.
Philae lander
Philae lander
Philae was the first
device to soft-land
on a comet.
6 cranes
9 hoists
Neumayer Station III
In the eternal ice of the Antarctic, the Alfred Wegener
Institute maintains the Neumayer Station III, where
researchers can live and work year-round. It is built on
hydraulic supports and adapts to changes in snow cover.
Mass:
Size:
Usable space:
Laboratory/office:
Living quarters:
2,300 tons
68 x 24 m
4,890 m2 on four levels
12 rooms
15 rooms, 40 beds
399
2.7 million
€ 79.7 billion
360,900
higher education institutes
and universities
students at
higher education institutions
spent on research
and development
researchers