New Mission Will Take First Peek at Sun’s Poles
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. EST. Launching on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft will use Venus’ and Earth’s gravity to swing itself out of the ecliptic plane — the swath of space, roughly aligned with the Sun’s equator, where all planets orbit. From there, Solar Orbiter's bird’s eye view will give it the first-ever look at the Sun's poles.
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Music credits: “Oxide” and “Virtual Tidings” by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS]; “Progressive Practice” by Emmanuel David Lipszc [SACEM], Franck Lascombes [SACEM], Sebastien Lipszyc [SACEM]; “Political Spectrum” by Laurent Dury [SACEM} from Universal Production Music
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Animators
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Brian Monroe (USRA)
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Joy Ng (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Krystofer Kim (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Lisa Poje (USRA)
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Data visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Writer
- Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase)
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Scientists
- Chris St. Cyr (NASA/GSFC)
- Daniel Mueller (ESA)
- Holly Gilbert (NASA/GSFC)
- Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla (Catholic University of America)
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Producer
- Joy Ng (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographers
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)