Gaia will probe the asteroid blind spot
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Copyright: ESA 2002. Illustration by Medialab
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: 1 September 2019