Location
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Start Date
8-1963 12:00 AM
Description
THE EXPLORER XVII satellite has discovered that the Earth is surrounded by a belt of neutral helium atoms and has sent back more than 8 hours of scientific information on the physics and chemistry of the tenuous gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists said the data being sent back to Earth is giving scientists the first actual measurements on neutral gases in the satellite's particular orbital path and their pressures, densities, and temperatures.
Preliminary Results of Explorer XVII
Cocoa Beach, Florida
THE EXPLORER XVII satellite has discovered that the Earth is surrounded by a belt of neutral helium atoms and has sent back more than 8 hours of scientific information on the physics and chemistry of the tenuous gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists said the data being sent back to Earth is giving scientists the first actual measurements on neutral gases in the satellite's particular orbital path and their pressures, densities, and temperatures.
