If the place is getting too hot, we need to combat that, be it through cutting co2 emmisions, developing more efficient carbon sinks, or just launching a dirty big sunshade into an earth -
sun lagrange point.
ULTIMATELY direct solar power generation and microwave Rectennae transmssion from DYNAMO / BOILER collection farms parked in Mercury orbit or at the mercury -
Sun Lagrange point is the ONLY serious source of electric power that can drive mankind's aspirations for future milliennia.
Parking a lot of parasols near the Earth -
Sun Lagrange point seems the most elegant solution, but is non-trivial on execution.
The High Definition Space Telescope (HDST) would be sensitive to light at UV through near - infrared wavelengths, viewing the universe from the second Earth -
Sun Lagrange point (L2), one million miles from the Earth.
Not exact matches
The route from the moon to L2 —
Lagrange point 2, a stable point on the side of the Earth opposite the
sun — took Chang» e 2 all of 77 days.
The telescope will eventually make its way to the
sun - Earth
Lagrange point 2, a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.
With the final burn of its propulsion module, it will cruise for six weeks to the
Lagrange point L1, where gravitational forces balance to keep it in a stable position between Earth and the
sun.
The European Space Agency's Davide Nicolini says that the LISA Pathfinder, set to launch at the end of 2009, will travel to the
Lagrange Point 1, the spot where Earth and the
sun's gravitational fields balance each other out.
Now, the only widely accepted three - body solution observed in space is a system made up of the
sun, Jupiter, and one of the nearby Trojan asteroids, which make up a
Lagrange - Euler type circle.
The ESA plans to build FEEP into the LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft designed to detect gravitational waves while stationed at
Lagrange point L1, where the gravitational fields of Earth and the
sun cancel each other out.
The spacecraft is designed to orbit at what's called the L1
Lagrange point — a position at which the satellite and Earth both orbit the
sun at the same pace, keeping the spacecraft constantly sandwiched between the two bodies.
But finding Earth's has proven difficult, because the
Lagrange points lie towards the
sun in the sky.
From the
sun's point of view, these wells lie 60 degrees ahead of and behind the Earth, at
Lagrange points where gravitational forces between the
sun and the Earth balance out.
Half an hour after launch, Webb will separate from the rocket and begin its month - long solo journey to its new home, the Second
Sun - Earth
Lagrange Point.
Webb will be stationed at the second
Sun - Earth
Lagrange Point, an orbit beyond the Moon, further than humans have ever travelled.
The Aditya - L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the
Sun from the vantage location of the first
Sun - Earth
Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.
The first question I have I asterisked in the abstract: «How does a large object stay stable at an Earth - Moon
Lagrange point for tens of millions of years when you've got the
Sun, Jupiter, Saturn et al tugging at and perturbing it?»
Unlike Hubble, close by in low Earth orbit, JWST will be placed at the
Sun - Earth L2
Lagrange point, 1.5 milion kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth.
It is located near L1
Lagrange point in space and is studying the
Sun.
The HDST would be located at the
Sun - Earth
Lagrange 2 point, a gravitationally stable «parking lot» in space located 1 million miles from Earth.
The third
Lagrange point, L3, lies behind the
sun, opposite Earth's orbit.
In a talk entitled, «A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration» given at the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the
sun at a position known as the Mars L1
Lagrange Point.
Scientists would place the $ 1.27 billion SOHO in an orbit around the
Lagrange L1 point — an area in space where the gravity of the
sun and the Earth balance each other out.
«NASA is unlikely to find any use for the L3 point since it remains hidden behind the
sun at all times,» NASA wrote on a web page about
Lagrange points.
Herschel's operational orbit was located 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth in a direction diametrically opposite the
Sun, at the second
Lagrange point of the
Sun - Earth system (L2).
In the case of the
Sun - Jupiter system, there are three
Lagrange points that lie along Jupiter's orbit and are home to thousands of asteroids.
Artist Statement «The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) orbits the
sun at the L1 Lagrange point where the gravity of the Sun and Earth cancel each other o
sun at the L1
Lagrange point where the gravity of the
Sun and Earth cancel each other o
Sun and Earth cancel each other out.
DSCOVR was designed to directly measure climate change for the first time ever by observing our warming planet from the unique vantage of the
Lagrange Point — one million miles towards the
Sun.
«The difficulty with the satellite approach becomes clear by considering first the suggestion of measuring Earth's reflected sunlight and emitted heat from a satellite at the
Lagrange L1 point, which is a location between the
Sun and Earth at which the gravitational pulls from these bodies are equal and opposite.
The idea would be to place an asteroid at
Lagrange point L1, a site where the gravitational pull of the
sun and the Earth cancel out.