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ESA optimises Cluster orbits

Submit on Friday, September 20th, 2013 22:57

Since 2000, the four identical satellites of the Cluster quartet have been probing Earth’s magnetosphere in three dimensions. This week, two of them made their closest-ever approach, just 4 km, enabling data to be acquired with unprecedented detail.

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