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Description: A visualisation of how Gaia scanned the sky during its first 14 months of operations, between July 2014 and September 2015. The satellite scans great circles on the sky, with each scan lasting about 6 hours.
Title: GAIAscanning
Credit: https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/58214-gaia-scanning-the-sky https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publications/Copyright
Author: GAIA Acknowledgement: B. Holl (University of Geneva, Switzerland), A. Moitinho & M. Barros (CENTRA – University of Lisbon)
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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