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Mission: investigating Jupiter and Saturn, and the moons of these planets. Its continuing data feed offered the first direct measurements of the heliosheath and the heliopause. It is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth, as well as the first object to leave the heliosphere and cross into interstellar space.
Halo orbit around Sun-Earth L1 point success test mission for proposed LISA gravitational wave observatory 2015-070A [69] Spektr-RG: 13 July 2019 (launch) Halo orbit around Sun-Earth L2 point operational X-ray astronomy: 2019-040A [70] Chang'e 5: CNSA: 23 November 2020 (launch) - 30 August 2021 (left L1) Halo orbit about Sun-Earth L1 point success
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Jupiter and Ganymede: En route Mission to study Jupiter's three icy moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, eventually orbiting Ganymede as the first spacecraft to orbit a satellite of another planet. European Union: Euclid: Earth-Sun L 2 point: Operational: It is ESA's project for a space telescope to study dark ...
The second flyby of Venus on December 26, 2019. The velocity decreases by 2.9 km/s to 26 km/s (red circle), shifting the spacecraft to a new orbit closer to the Sun. Within each orbit of the Parker Solar Probe around the Sun, the portion within 0.25 AU is the Science Phase, in which the probe is actively and autonomously making observations.
In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true. Jupiter actually does not orbit the sun
Derelict satellites in heliocentric orbit (54 P) Pages in category "Satellites orbiting the Sun" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Sun-synchronous orbit: An orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that the satellite passes over any given point of the planets's surface at the same local solar time. Such an orbit can place a satellite in constant sunlight and is useful for imaging, spy, and weather satellites.
In both the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, Jupiter was named after the chief god of the divine pantheon: Zeus to the Greeks and Jupiter to the Romans. [19] The International Astronomical Union formally adopted the name Jupiter for the planet in 1976 and has since named its newly discovered satellites for the god's lovers, favourites, and descendants. [20]