Artist's impression of the Ulysses spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched by the space shuttle in October 1990,Ulysses will study the sun & interplanetary medium out of the plane of the solar system. The spacecraft's initial trajectory will take it on a 14-month flight to Jupiter,where the giant planet's gravity will be used as a slingshot to hurl the spacecraft out of the plane of the solar system & back towards the sun. Two & a half years later its orbit will take it over both of the sun's poles. In this artwork,the spacecraft is seen in front of a false-colour photograph of the sun's disc | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Kinsbergen, Ton |
Bildgröße: | 4216 px × 5519 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |