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SolACES – An Auto-Calibrating EUV / UV Spectrophotometer on the International Space Station (ISS)


The goal of SolACES (Solar Auto-Calibrating EUV/UV Spectrophotometers) is to measure the spectral EUV fluxes of the Sun with an absolute radiometric accuracy of better than ten per cent. To this end, ...
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Related Topics: Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance Instrumentation and Photography Geophysics Meteorology and Climatology Solar Physics Space Radiation Qualification

11.06.2012 - A part of Vesta’s shadowed northern hemisphere


This Dawn framing camera (FC) image of Vesta shows a very shadowed region in Vesta’s northern hemisphere. Roughly the upper one third of Vesta’s northern hemisphere is currently in shadow. This is bec...
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Related Topics: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration Solar Physics

Optical Measurement Systems and Special Experiments under Space Conditions


At the Department Facilities and Solar Materials of the DLR Institute of Solar Research there is equipment to launch concentrated solar radiation and also the radiation of different artificial light s...
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Related Topics: Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Solar Physics Qualification

20.02.2012 - Dawn on Vesta


This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows the sun illuminating the landscape of Vesta during a Vestan ‘sunrise’. When this image was obtained the sun had a low angle relative to Vesta’s surface, just ...
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Related Topics: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration Solar Physics

27.02.2012 - Islands in the darkness


This Dawn FC (framing camera) image shows a part of Vesta’s northern hemisphere, which is mostly in darkness. Since Dawn’s arrival at Vesta the sun has not illuminated Vesta’s most northerly latitudes...
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Related Topics: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration Solar Physics

Mission Rosetta


The Rosetta mission, approved by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1993 and launched in March 2004, is one of the most ambitious endeavors of European spaceflight. On its way to comet 67 P/Churyumov-...
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