... successful landing to that planet), crowned with double mission VEGA (l. 1984), which consisted of balloons to float in Venusian atmosphere and two fly-by spacecraft to rendezvous with comet Halley, along with a fleet of spacecraft from Europe and Japan ...
... The most prominent among them were the Venera-Halley project studying the planet of Venus and the Halley comet and the other world-wide known project Phobos aimed to study the planet of Mars, its magnetosphere and the Phobos satellite. ...
... VEGA spacecraft exploring the comet is shown on stamps of Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Malagasy Republic, Mongolia and de Luxe sheet of Djibouti. ...
... Waves in solar wind / magnetospheres and comet plasma interactions, magnetospheric convection and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, interaction of the supper large bodies (orbital station) with ionosphere. ...
... The solar wind does move ion tails in comets, not by colliding with them but by the ... were quickly ionized by sunlight, creating an "artificial comet" of barium ions ...
... Comets are believed to be remnants of the formation of the solar system; some of them (like Halley's comet) are diverted by the attraction of planets into orbits of relatively short periods around the Sun. ...
... At the end of 1983, however, the magnetospheric probe ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer 3) pulled away from Earth towards comet Giacobini-Zinner, and some time later was sufficiently far from Earth to intercept such CMEs. ...