In addition to supplying space agencies with invaluable data on the moons of Saturn and the gas giant itself, the Cassini spacecraft is also helping in our quest to learn more about our solar system. As we move through the local Milky Way galaxy, the space probe is taking non-stop measurements as to the nature of our... |
20 November 2009
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Data from satellites charged with producing a map of our solar system and its limits have revealed that our “bubble” ends with a very narrow ribbon of densely packed neutral atoms, rather than with an area of evenly distributed ones. The fringes of the solar system can only be imagined, astronomers say, i... |
16 October 2009
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Two days ago, the small probe that represents the accomplishment of the efforts of Southwest Research Institute experts, was successfully launched into space on a Pegasus rocket carried by an L-1011 jet plane at high altitude above the Pacific. The probe was carried by the Pegasus for about 130 miles onto its orbit ... |
21 October 2008
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The IBEX probe will be launched on Sunday with the declared aim of reaching past the Earth's magnetic field in order to examine the interactions that take place at the boundaries of the heliosphere.Despite having protruded far more distant corners of the universe, we still have little knowledge of the phenomena ... |
14 October 2008
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are two of the most important spacecrafts in the history of space and solar system exploration, and currently the only two man-made objects to go beyond the limits of the solar system. Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, the area of space where solar wind and interstellar radiation collid... |
3 July 2008
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Viewed as one of the most productive explorers ever launched by mankind, Voyager 2 was the probe that set, in 1989, the point where all the planets in the solar system had been visited at least once by a spacecraft. On its path across the solar system, the spacecraft Voyager 2 is now at a distance of 83.5 astronomica... |
28 November 2007
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