‘Broken Heart’ Image the Last for NASA’s Long-Lived Polar Mission
As far as endings go, this one’S a real Heart breaker. NASA’s Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible-light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora. The Polar team has dubbed this final image “The Broken Heart.”
When the Polar satellite launched February 24, 1996, the plan was for a two-year science mission to study the lIghts that forM a ring aroUnd Earth’s north and south magnetic poles, known as the Northern and Southern Lights, or auroras. Polar has exceeded expectations by a decade.
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