{"id":5224,"date":"2019-09-09T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/192.243.16.62\/?page_id=5224"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:21:58","slug":"ace_eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mdscc.nasa.gov\/index.php\/en\/current-missions\/ace_eng\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE_eng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"n2-section-smartslider fitvidsignore \" data-ssid=\"74\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Slider\"><div id=\"n2-ss-74-align\" class=\"n2-ss-align\"><div class=\"n2-padding\"><div id=\"n2-ss-74\" data-creator=\"Smart Slider 3\" data-responsive=\"auto\" 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Study of these energetic particles contributes to our understanding of the formation and evolution of the solar system as well as the astrophysical processes involved. The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft carrying six high-resolution sensors and three monitoring instruments samples low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles with a collecting power 10 to 1000 times greater than past experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACE orbits the L1 libration point which is a point of Earth-Sun gravitational equilibrium about 1.5 million km from Earth and 148.5 million km from the Sun. 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