TINA CASEY
Hold onto your hats sci-fi fans, you’re about to find out how much, exactly, the Earth drags space and time along with it as it rotates. The answer to that and other burning questions is forthcoming from LARES, an Italian satellite that just took off on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) brand new Vega launching system. The primary mission of the satellite is to measure the “bizarre” phenomenon called the Lense-Thirring effect.
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