title: Aspera
text: # Aspera
  
  Aspera may refer to:
  
  ## Music
  
  * Aspera (band), an American indie rock band
  * (a)spera, a 2009 album by Mirah
  * Above Symmetry, a Norwegian progressive metal band originally known as Aspera
  * "Aspera", the lead track from We Will Become Like Birds by Erin McKeown
  
  ## Science
  
  * Aspera European Astroparticle network, a physics organization
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Aspera (company) a file transfer software company
  * Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms, an instrument package on the Mars Express and Venus Express spacecraft
  * Automatic Space Plasma Experiment with Rotating Analyzer, an instrument on board the Phobos 2 spacecraft
  
  ## Biology and Anatomy
  
  * Ulmus 'Aspera', a kind of elm tree
  * Aspera, a nomen superfluum for the Rubiaceae genus Galium
  * H. aspera (disambiguation), several species of plants
  * Linea aspera, a bone structure in human anatomy
  
  ## Other
  
  * Per aspera ad astra, a Latin phrase
  