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

151K views · 2.3K reactions | Discovered 40 years ago today, Charon, the largest of Pluto's five moons, fueled the dwarf planet’s evolution from a telescopic dot into an actual planetary system – and a source of many discoveries yet to come: https://go.nasa.gov/2K0qb9D | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook