Category: Spacecraft
Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe
Everybody sees the Sun. Nobody’s been there. Starting in 2018 though, NASA launched the robotic Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to investigate regions near to the Sun for the first time. The PSP’s looping orbit brings it yet closer to the...
Enceldus — Saturn’s Icy moon
A few days ago images returned from the NASA spacecraft Cassini. Cassini came within 50 km of the moons service to return this wonderful photo, but it’s not finished just yet. In another month (and a bit) it will run...