diff --git a/astroquery/esasky/core.py b/astroquery/esasky/core.py
index fe5e71a150..5de2c83fb1 100644
--- a/astroquery/esasky/core.py
+++ b/astroquery/esasky/core.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ class ESASkyClass(BaseQuery):
     __TAP_DEC_COLUMN_STRING = "tapDecColumn"
     __METADATA_STRING = "metadata"
     __PRODUCT_URL_STRING = "product_url"
+    __EROSITA_PRODUCT_URL_STRING = "prod_url"
     __ACCESS_URL_STRING = "access_url"
     __USE_INTERSECT_STRING = "useIntersectPolygonInsteadOfContainsPoint"
     __ZERO_ARCMIN_STRING = "0 arcmin"
@@ -1464,6 +1465,8 @@ def _get_maps_for_mission(self, maps_table, mission, download_dir, cache, json,
             url_key = self.__PRODUCT_URL_STRING
         if url_key == "" and self.__ACCESS_URL_STRING in maps_table.keys():
             url_key = self.__ACCESS_URL_STRING
+        if url_key == "" and mission == 'EROSITA':
+            url_key = self.__EROSITA_PRODUCT_URL_STRING
         if url_key == "" or mission == "ALMA":
             log.info(mission + " does not yet support downloading of fits files")
             return maps
@@ -1527,6 +1530,15 @@ def _get_maps_for_mission(self, maps_table, mission, download_dir, cache, json,
                                     if self._ends_with_fits_like_extentsion(info.filename):
                                         maps.append(self._open_fits(
                                             zip.extract(info.filename, path=mission_directory), verbose=verbose))
+                        elif ('Content-Type' in response.headers and
+                              response.headers['Content-Type'] == 'application/x-gzip'):
+                            with esatar.open(name='dummy', mode='r', fileobj=BytesIO(response.content)) as tar:
+                                for file in tar.getmembers():
+                                    if self._ends_with_fits_like_extentsion(file.name):
+                                        file.name = os.path.basename(file.name)
+                                        tar.extract(file, path=mission_directory)
+                                        maps.append(self._open_fits(
+                                            Path(mission_directory, file.name), verbose=verbose))
                         else:
                             file_name = self._extract_file_name_from_response_header(response.headers)
                             if file_name == "":
diff --git a/astroquery/esasky/tests/test_esasky_remote.py b/astroquery/esasky/tests/test_esasky_remote.py
index 9434dda82c..9f43ed294e 100755
--- a/astroquery/esasky/tests/test_esasky_remote.py
+++ b/astroquery/esasky/tests/test_esasky_remote.py
@@ -124,6 +124,15 @@ def test_esasky_get_images(self, tmp_path, mission):
             for hdu_list in result[mission.upper()]:
                 hdu_list.close()
 
+    @pytest.mark.bigdata
+    def test_esasky_get_images_for_erosita(self, tmp_path):
+        mission = 'eROSITA'
+        result = ESASky.get_images(position="67.84 -61.44", missions=mission, download_dir=tmp_path)
+        assert tmp_path.stat().st_size
+
+        for hdu_list in result[mission.upper()]:
+            hdu_list.close()
+
     @pytest.mark.bigdata
     @pytest.mark.parametrize('mission, position',
                              zip(['JWST-MID-IR', 'JWST-NEAR-IR'],