Introduction
Welcome to the Web pages of the Ulysses team at Imperial College, London.
The purpose of these pages is to introduce the Ulysses mission and the
work at Imperial to the general public, and to provide Ulysses-related
information for the space science community.
The Ulysses Spacecraft
Ulysses is a joint ESA-NASA mission. The spacecraft was launched in October
1990, and carries several scientific instruments, most of which are designed
to study the state of the solar wind as it flows past the spacecraft. The
initial part of the mission (to February 1992) involved a cruise to Jupiter.
The close approach to that planet then changed Ulysses' orbit drastically,
putting it in an orbit which carries it over the poles of the Sun. This
allows the spacecraft to measure the solar wind flowing from very high
solar latitudes, which had not been achieved previously. Consequently,
we have learnt (and are still learning) a great deal about the behaviour
of the solar wind flowing from all over the Sun.
The Ulysses Operations Team has an excellent page
describing the spacecraft itself.
We have a gallery of images of the spacecraft
on the ground and in space.
If you're curious about space science in general, you might want to
look at a list of space-related Web links,
Science
The Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial College has interests
in two instruments on Ulysses: the magnetic field experiment and the Anisotropy
Telescope. This site has information about both instruments.
The
information available here includes:
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