...(km) about the planet’s surface, the orbiter took this spectacular image of a 40 km-long segment of the Korolev Crater topped with... ice, as it tested out its Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) after a long-distance software update. “We ...
... satellites this way will allow there to be coverage 24/7, regardless of the weather, light or clouds. A compressed ICEYE-X1 SAR image of George Town, Malaysia. The reason the idea of placing SAR technology on a small satellite has been previously...
... NASA, a team at Northumbria University, UK hopes that images with unprecedented clarity taken as part of the Hi-C mission,...different temperatures within the corona. Dr Morton explained: “These images taken of the Sun’s corona have the finest detail ...
... of less than one thirty-six thousandth of a degree for more than an hour - a stability that should produce images as sharp as those taken with Hubble. An added advantage of carrying a telescope on a balloon is maintenance. The Hubble Space Telescope...
... role in coronal heating." Solar Orbiter carries six imaging instruments, all of which study different aspects of the...Sun's light to one trillionth of its original brightness. "The images produced such a perfect zodiacal light pattern, so clean," says...
..., the probe is equipped with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, will gather data...