Two spacecraft fly past Venus on the same day? 🛰️
Well technically…
Venus spins very slowly. It takes 243 Earth days to make one rotation.
So while in Earth time our Solar Orbiter flew past Venus in February and Juice is scheduled to do it on 31st August if you were on Venus, both would be happening on the exact same day.
Juice will make use of Venus’s gravity to get a boost on its journey to Jupiter. This is a purely operational manoeuvre, During the flyby, no instruments will be switched on – after all, they’re designed to work at chilly Jupiter rather than toasty Venus.
📹 European Space Agency (ESA)
📸 ESA/Lightcurve Films/R. Andres
#ESA #Venus #Space
I takie dni to ja rozumiem
How intriguing…equally though, how useless a piece of information for the majority of folk…dgp/uk
Que ojazos
I wonder what “nerd” noticed this and brought it to the marketing teams attention hahahaha must be a cool guy I imagine
To dwa ucieczkowe 🛸🛸 dyktatora z 🇺🇦😱
Longest 🎂 ever!
Wait the moon rottates on its own? Thiught it just rottated arpund earth but had one side facing us always
You are so beautiful ❤️