by Anthony Barreiro » Thu May 02, 2013 9:35 pm
Lordcat Darkstar wrote:I was wondering does Saturn have jets of energetic particles coming out of its polar regions like newly forming stars and galexies? If there were I would think it would only be radio waves and would probably be very weak, but it would definently be interesting to study. Also I've never heard of it but does the sun have a vortex at its polar regions or is its rotation not fast enough to support one? Come to think of it I've never seen an image of the sun from the north or south pole.
The joint ESA-NASA
Ulysses spacecraft has been in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the Sun since 1994. Ulysses contributed greatly to our understanding of the Sun's polar regions and collected other useful data about the solar wind, dust entering the solar system from interstellar space, triangulating the sources of gamma ray bursts, etc. The
spacecraft was dogged by technical problems throughout it's mission, and its last transmitter was shut down in 2009.
Ulysses forgot to pack his camera when he set sail from Troy, unfortunately.
[quote="Lordcat Darkstar"]I was wondering does Saturn have jets of energetic particles coming out of its polar regions like newly forming stars and galexies? If there were I would think it would only be radio waves and would probably be very weak, but it would definently be interesting to study. Also I've never heard of it but does the sun have a vortex at its polar regions or is its rotation not fast enough to support one? Come to think of it I've never seen an image of the sun from the north or south pole. :shock:[/quote]
The joint ESA-NASA [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)]Ulysses spacecraft[/url] has been in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the Sun since 1994. Ulysses contributed greatly to our understanding of the Sun's polar regions and collected other useful data about the solar wind, dust entering the solar system from interstellar space, triangulating the sources of gamma ray bursts, etc. The [url=http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html]spacecraft[/url] was dogged by technical problems throughout it's mission, and its last transmitter was shut down in 2009. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus]Ulysses[/url] forgot to pack his camera when he set sail from Troy, unfortunately.