by rmil2k | Apr 4, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Science & Exploration 03/04/2024 508 views 7 likes ESA gives new names to its key contributions to the lunar Gateway, which is set to become the first space station around the Moon. The Gateway will support the most distant human space missions ever...
by rmil2k | Apr 3, 2024 | News
[ad_1] The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon begin its decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time, or LSST, monitoring the entire sky over the southern hemisphere thousands of times over. A mission this huge requires a camera of equal magnitude. Fortunately, SLAC...
by rmil2k | Apr 3, 2024 | News
[ad_1] During the 2017 total solar eclipse, the Sun’s corona, only visible during the total eclipse, is shown as a crown of white flares from the surface. Credit: NASA/Carla Thomas. The word “corona” means “crown” — during the eclipse, it becomes visible, and...
by rmil2k | Apr 3, 2024 | News
[ad_1] The edge of the Solar System is defined by the heliosphere and its heliopause. The heliopause marks the region where the interstellar medium stops the outgoing solar wind. But only two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have ever travelled to the heliopause....
by rmil2k | Apr 2, 2024 | News
[ad_1] Enabling & Support 02/04/2024 774 views 15 likes In brief The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter is approaching the closest point to the Sun in its current orbit. It is an important time for the mission’s science activities, and the mission control team at ESA is...
