Open data and open data exploitation outcomes for a generation of citizens supporting science (~1.3 million volunteers for up to $2.5 billion in-kind annual contribution)

— Margaret Gold, European Citizen Science Association

If you look up the meaning of ɸ there is a long explanation, but at the end it says ‘ɸ is also used as a symbol for the golden ratio and on other occasions for maths and science’ and I would now add, ‘and in space’ – space for the future.  

— Jan Wörner,ESA Director General

GOCE gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth, Antarctica

— Fausto Ferraccioli, Science Leader of Geology and Geophysics at BAS