Termination shock
Shock at which the solar wind is thought to slow to subsonic speed, well inside the heleopause.
Shock at which the solar wind is thought to slow to subsonic speed, well inside the heleopause.
The boundary between the light side and the dark side of a planet or other body.
A term used to describe anything originating on the planet Earth.
A name given to a planet composed mainly of rock and iron, similar to that of Earth.
Coherent communications mode wherein a DSS receives a downlink whose frequency is based upon the frequency of an uplink provided ...
The differential gravitational pull exerted on any extended body within the gravitational field of another body.
Frictional heating of a satellite's interior due to flexure caused by the gravitational pull of its parent planet and/or other ...
The gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun makes the water in the oceans bulge, causing a continuous change ...