ecliptic
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Black flat sphere five degrees off the ecliptic else each month we’d see totality, normal as a door, common as a starling.
From Scientific American
For now, the spacecraft remains in the ecliptic, even as flybys of Earth and Venus allow it to spiral inward.
From New York Times
The modern definition of the new moon occurs “when the Moon and Sun are at the same geocentric ecliptic longitude,” explains NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio on its website.
From Fox News
By using solar radiation pressure on its solar panels, the spacecraft could be kept stable – as long as it pointed at locations along the ecliptic plane, the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
From Scientific American
The white curve made a delicate, graceful arc toward the plane of the ecliptic — and the orbits of the planets.
From The Verge
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