Space maneuvers have often been described as an orbital ballet, but the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cluster II satellites are currently in a ballet where the dancers are moving blindfolded at hypersonic speeds as they pass within a cosmic hairsbreadth of one another. That's because two of the Cluster satellites are flying within "touching distance" of one another as scientists try to learn more about the effects of solar wind on the Earth's magnetic field... Continue Reading Cluster satellites come within cosmic hairsbreadth
Section: Space
Tags: Earth, ESA, Magnetic field, Satellite, Spacecraft
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