Gaia will probe the asteroid blind spot
Copyright: ESA 2002. Illustration by Medialab ESA's Gaia spacecraft will be ideally situated to probe the asteroid blind spot between the Sun and Earth.This artist's impression indicates how regions of the sky that are unobservable from Earth can be observed by Gaia. (Not to scale). A flash animation indicates how Gaia obtains almost complete coverage of this asteroid blind spot over time.
Last Update: 22 Oct 2003
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