Where is Ulysses now?

The Ulysses spacecraft was launced via shuttle on October 6, 1990, and used Jupiter's large gravitational field to accelerate out of the ecliptic plane. The aim was to achieve high latitudes, to get a view of the sun that we can't see from Earth.

One of the characters in 'Behind the Sun' used data from the Ulysses' mission to make an important discovery. You can check this website to see where the Ulysses is now.


http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov/