![]() One of the two home islands of the god was Thrinacia. It is said in Ovid's Metamorphoses that names of these horses were Aethon, Pyrois, Phlegon and Eous. He was often described riding his famous golden chariot that was drawn by four horses, which he occasionally borrowed to his relatives. Helios was also used, like his sisters Eos and Selene and also his uncle Oceanus, for describing the movements of the stars, measuring days and seasons but was also personalised whenever it suited the authors. ![]() As for Homer, Helios and Hyperion is one and the same character, he is using both names for the same character in the Iliad and the Odyssey. In Ovid's Fasti, it is said that sun sprang soon after Chaos and that would put him in the older generation before Titans. Usually, he is described as a son of Hyperion and Theia, but some authors are equating sun to Apollo. According to some authors, he was worshiped and admired at the same scale as Zeus because he is a life bringer with his beams of light. Helios (Helius, Sol, Sun) was a titan god of the sun and sunlight and was described as the One who watches from above and sees and observes anyone or anything if he wishes, not just on earth but in heavens also. ![]() Data was received until late 1982.Helios Helios, god of the sun and sunlight Control was maintained from a German center outside of Munich. Helios 1's data was correlated with the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) Explorers 47 and 50 in Earth orbit, the Pioneer solar orbiters, and Pioneers 10 and 11 en route to leaving the solar system. Its data indicated the presence of 15 times more micrometeorites close to the Sun than there are near Earth. During its mission, the spacecraft spun once every second to evenly distribute the heat coming from the Sun, 90 percent of which was reflected by optical surface mirrors. Experiments were provided by scientists from both FRG and the U.S.Īfter a successful launch, Helios 1 passed within 47 million kilometers of the Sun at a speed of 238,000 km per hour on 15 March 1975, the closest any human-made object had been to our nearest star. The FRG provided the spacecraft and NASA the launch vehicles. It was the largest bilateral project to date for NASA, with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, aka West Germany) paying about $180 million of the total $260 million cost. Specifically, the spacecraft's instruments were designed to investigate phenomena such as solar wind, magnetic and electric fields, cosmic rays, and cosmic dust in regions between Earth's orbit and approximately 0.3 AU from the Sun. ![]() ![]() Helios 1 was a joint German-American deep-space mission to study the main solar processes and solar-terrestrial relationships. Solar System Log by Andrew Wilson, published 1987 by Jane's Publishing Co. Total Cost: $260 million (of which Germany paid $180 million)ĭeep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000, Monographs in Aerospace History No. Spacecraft Instruments: 1) plasma detector 2) two fluxgate magnetometers 3) plasma and radio wave experiment 4) cosmic-ray detectors 5) electron detector 6) zodiacal light photometer 7) micrometeoroid analyzer 8) celestial mechanics experiment Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, USA, launch complex 41 Launch Vehicle: Titan IIIE-Centaur (TC-5 / Titan no. ![]()
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