A dead NASA satellite will fall back to Earth today after 21 years in orbit around our planet. Here's what we know.
A NASA satellite launched in 2002 will finally fall back to Earth this week. The dead NASA Satellite was decommissioned in 2018, and now, five years later, it’s finally falling out of orbit.NASA report
NASA reports that the dead satellite was previously used to observe solar flares and coronal mass ejections. During its 16 years of service, it helped scientists understand the physics that help create the massive bursts of energy our sun releases. Over the years, this NASA satellite helped scientists measure massive superflares, tens of thousands of times bigger than any we’d ever seen. It also helped improve the measurements of the sun’s shape that astronomers rely on.
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