ISEE-3 (ICE) Revisits Earth
- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) was a mission launched in 1978 and was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth-Sun L1 (Wikipedia: Lagrange) point.
Its primary mission complete, it was renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) and its orbit was altered to measure the electrodynamic environments of comets Giacobini-Zinner and Halley (Wikipedia). It subsequently entered a solar orbit which sent it inside and outside the orbit of the Earth.
In mid-2014, its current orbit will have ICE pass close to the Earth.
Its primary mission complete, it was renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) and its orbit was altered to measure the electrodynamic environments of comets Giacobini-Zinner and Halley (Wikipedia). It subsequently entered a solar orbit which sent it inside and outside the orbit of the Earth.
In mid-2014, its current orbit will have ICE pass close to the Earth.
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Animator
- Tom Bridgman (GST) [Lead]
Writer
- Karen Fox (ADNET)
Producer
- Genna Duberstein (ADNET)
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Datasets used in this visualization
DE421 (A.K.A. JPL DE421)
Ephemeris
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NASA/JPL
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
See more visualizations using this data setJPL/Horizon Orbital Ephemerides
Ephemeris
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NASA/JPL
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
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