This week, a meeting took place in the Ahr valley with representatives of the district of Ahrweiler and local authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) as part of the RESITEK project to ...

On 24 July 2025, the final experiment in the Surface Avatar mission took place. A total of four robots in the DLR Mars laboratory in Oberpfaffenhofen were commanded by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim on ...

Close cooperation between research and politics is crucial for the safe integration of artificial intelligence into the economy and society. Together with Julia Dunker from her team and Mario ...

At 600 kilometres wide and 24 kilometres tall, Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the Solar System. To the north lies the crescent-shaped aureole of the Acheron Fossae, an area marked by prominent ...

The consequences of various geological processes can be studied in the western part of the Acheron Fossae region – an area strongly influenced by volcanism and the associated tectonic processes.

North of the giant Olympus Mons volcano lies an area almost the size of Germany, shaped heavily by tectonic forces and subsequently the deposition of rubble and debris by glaciers: Acheron Fossae – a ...

In the transition from the Martian highlands in the west of the tectonically shaped Acheron Fossae region to the northern lowlands (north is to the right in this image), a high plateau with a very ...

DLR's HRSC stereo camera onboard Mars Express uses its nine sensors to image the Martian surface at various angles across the flight path. The colour scale in the upper right shows elevation values ...

The German Space Agency at DLR (formerly DLR Space Administration) acts as Germany’s space agency and, in this capacity, implements the Federal Government’s space strategy. It has approximately 300 ...

The four-legged DLR robot Bert is compact in design and can walk with various gaits, making it suitable for exploring difficult terrain. For the Surface Avatar technology demonstration, NASA astronaut ...

The Dornier Do 228-212 research aircraft (registration D-CFFU) with the F-SAR system installed. The radar system is housed in the cabin, while the antennas for the various wavelengths (X, C, S and L ...

Left: a high-resolution HySpex image of the Puch test area in true colours, taken on 12 May 2025. Centre: the same image with locations of drone acquisition points (orange). Right: land cover derived ...