SpaceX Dragon Capsule has already created history. For the first time, a man’s task is circling the earth and both poles, and doing so with a 90 -degree circular path, which allows you to catch the unveiled images of polar areas from space.
Fram2 has taken off this morning From the Kennedy Space Center (Florida). Four people travel on the ship.
Show the first pictures sent by the group Frozen and dazzling terrain from a height of 425 to 450 kilometers. The scenes capture the magnificence of our planet from a orbit that no civil mission has ever traveled. This new perspective is not only shocking from visual view, but also useful for climate and scientific studies.
Science and Space Travel in the same task
In three to five days that lasting the task, The crew will perform 22 scientific testsAmong them:
- Micro gravity is the first human radiography.
- Study on growing fungi in space.
- Atmospheric and climate observations in polar areas.
Why is a polar orbit very special?
Unlike the equatorial or regular lower orbit, A polar orbit allows you to travel the entire planet north to southInstead of returning only around Ecuador. This allows not only new views, but also to collect global data. This is one of the orbits preferred by land tracking satellites, but It has not yet been used by a man’s job.
Poles historically it is difficult to care from space with human existence. Although satellites like NASA or Isa see them everyday, No man before seeing them with their eyes from a orbit window. The first films captured by FRAM2 were made from a civil mission.
Polar areas are particularly sensitive to global warming. It provides a new dimension to climate science to look at them directly, take pictures in different wavelengths, measure atmospheric parameters, and register data from the living capsule.
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