On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles travelling through space. Space History Archives👉https://space-com.visitlink.me/RSUG9h It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post near the L1 Lagrangian point, a point of gravitational equilibrium between Earth and the sun. There, the spacecraft is monitoring the stream of accel

See Hurricane Erin in 3D 🌀 Hurricane Erin went through a period of rapid intensification, strengthening from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane in around 24 hours. NASA’s GPM Core Observatory passed over Hurricane Erin at 6:23a.m. EDT on August 16th, while it was intensifying. Information from the GPM satellite allows scientists to see inside a storm from space. This data helps scientists identify the storm’s structure, areas of heavier precipitation, and frozen precipitation. Frozen precip