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Ulysses is an unmanned probe designed to study the Sun at all latitudes. The spacecraft, named for the Latin translation of " Odysseus", was launched in October 1990 from the Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-41) as a joint venture of NASA and the European Space Agency. The spacecraft first flew to Jupiter for a swing-by maneuver which brought it out of the eclipticThe ecliptic is the geometric plane that contains the orbit of the Earth. The orbits of most planets in the Solar System lie very close to it. Seen from the Earth, this is a bisecting great circle, superimposed upon the celestial sphere, which contains th plane, in order to investigate the polar regions of the Sun. In 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an- 51995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja and again in 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri- 12001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap it explored both the northNorth is one of the four primary cardinal directions, specifically the direction treated, in Western culture, as the primary direction and used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions. As to the arbitrary nature of this choice, and psychern and southSouth is one of the four cardinal or compass directions. It is the opposite of north and at right angles to east and west. True south is the direction towards the southern end of the axis about which the earth rotates, called the South Pole. The South Polern solar polar regions, which gave many unexpected results. In particular the southern magnetic pole was found to be much more dynamic and without any fixed clear location. It is, of course, wrong to say that the sun has no magnetic south pole. The sun is not a magnetic monopole, the pole is merely more diffusely located than the north pole.
Ulysses mission has been extended until at least 2004 when it will be making observations of Jupiter.
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