Artist's concept of a spacecraft deploying an electric solar wind sail (e-sail). The solar wind is a high-speed stream of electrically charged gases--ionized hydrogen and helium--that flow outward from a star such as the sun. The e-sail array consists of many ultra fine electrified wires spinning to keep them stretched and to present an electric field barrier to the ions,much as a canvas sail does to the wind | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Carol and Mike Werner |
Taille de l’image : | 6060 px × 4040 px |
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