Monday 18 November 2019

How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of 'comet crumbs'

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes. A team of NASA scientists leveraged LISA Pathfinder's record-setting sensitivity for a different purpose much closer to homemapping microscopic dust shed by comets and asteroids.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-science-news/how-lisa-pathfinder-detected-dozens-of-comet-crumbs