FP TrendsJuly 22, 2020 08:58:31 IST To fill the massive gaps in our understanding of the Sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Solar Orbiter mission on February 9, 2020. The spacecraft completed its first close pass of the Sun in …
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By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | Updated: July 18, 2020 11:26:37 am (Image: Solar Orbiter / EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD / WRC, ROB, UCL / MSSL) The solar orbiter, which is a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), has submitted …
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The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, or SolO, launched in February 2020, beginning a seven-year mission to intensively study the Sun. It is loaded with 10 different scientific instruments to investigate a multitude of solar phenomena, including things that happen on its surface and the inner corona, and it …
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