{ "id": 4822, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4822/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Heliophysics Sentinels 2020", "description": "There have been few changes since the 2018 Heliophysics Fleet. Van Allen Probes and SORCE have been decommissioned, while Solar Orbiter, ICON and SET have been added. As of spring 2020, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program:Magenta: TIM (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere) observationsYellow: solar observations and imageryCyan: Geospace and magnetosphereViolet: Heliospheric observations || ", "release_date": "2020-09-15T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-01-25T00:13:17.254423-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 382681, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004800/a004822/Sentinels2020.InnerSolarSystem.GSE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.01500_print.jpg", "filename": "Sentinels2020.InnerSolarSystem.GSE.AU.clockSlate_EarthTarget.HD1080i.01500_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This visualization presents orbits of the current heliophysics satellites covering the space near Earth, out to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, L1, and finally a view of the current missions operating in the inner solar system.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 }, "main_video": { "id": 382670, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a004800/a004822/Sentinels2020.NearEarth.HD1080i_p30.mp4", "filename": "Sentinels2020.NearEarth.HD1080i_p30.mp4", "media_type": "Movie", "alt_text": "This visualization presents orbits of the current heliophysics satellites covering the space near Earth, out to the orbit of the Moon.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 }, "progress": "Complete", "media_groups": [ { "id": 319065, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4822/#media_group_319065", "widget": "Basic text with HTML", "title": "", "caption": "", "description": "There have been few changes since the 2018 Heliophysics Fleet. Van Allen Probes and SORCE have been decommissioned, while Solar Orbiter, ICON and SET have been added. As of spring 2020, here's a tour of the NASA Heliophysics fleet from the near-Earth satellites out to the Voyagers beyond the heliopause.
Excepting the Voyager missions, the satellite orbits are color coded for their observing program: