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COSPIN is one of the instruments on the Ulysses spacecraft. COSPIN stands for the COsmic and Solar Particle INvestigation. Try saying that fast three times! COSPIN is actually made up of 5 different sensors.
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There are magnets all around us. Many of us use them to stick papers on our refrigerator doors. Well, the Sun acts like it has a big magnet in it. This magnetic force spreads out from the Sun in lines.
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Ulysses has a different orbit than most spacecraft. It got swung past Jupiter into an orbit that takes it past the north and south poles of the Sun. This is the sling shot approach to getting a spacecraft
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With the help of the SOHO spacecraft, scientists have made an exciting discovery about the Sun. SOHO stands for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The discovery is that there are streams of plasma flowing
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One main goal of the Ulysses mission is to test the solar wind. Scientists are really interested in the wind coming from the north and south poles of the Sun. Solar wind is made up of particles that come
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SWOOPS stands for "Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun". That's a big name for 2 small instruments! You see, SWOOPS is actually made up of 2 instruments, the ion spectrometer and the electron
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