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English: Plot of Voyager 2's heliocentric velocity against its distance from the sun, illustrating the effect of gravity assist, i.e. the use of Jupiter’s, Saturn’s and Uranus’s gravity to accelerate the spacecraft. To observe Triton, Voyager 2 passed over Neptune's north pole resulting in an acceleration out of the plane of the ecliptic ...
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Evolution of the solar luminosity, radius and effective temperature compared to the present-day Sun. After Ribas (2009) [3] The uncrewed SOHO spacecraft was used to measure the radius of the Sun by timing transits of Mercury across the surface during 2003 and 2006. The result was a measured radius of 696,342 ± 65 kilometres (432,687 ± 40 miles).
The Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that launched in February 2020, orbits the sun from an average distance of 26 million miles (42 million kilometers).
Based on Jupiter's composition, researchers have made the case for an initial formation outside the molecular nitrogen (N 2) snow line, which is estimated at 20–30 AU (3.0–4.5 billion km; 1.9–2.8 billion mi) from the Sun, and possibly even outside the argon snow line, which may be as far as 40 AU (6.0 billion km; 3.7 billion mi).
This photo, and many other images that have been released from Juno's extended mission, employs color enhancement to help visualize the depth between the layers of clouds in Jupiter's deep atmosphere.
Distance description for orbital and non-orbital parameters: d - distance d - in km = kilometer; d - in mi = mile; d - in AU = astronomical unit; d - in ly = light-year; d - in pc = parsec; d - in kpc = kiloparsec (1000 pc) D L - luminosity distance, obtaining an objects distance using only visual aspects