Smile launch kit cover

Cover page of the Smile launch kit, a set of 12 infographics designed especially for media covering the Smile mission.

Follow the mission at esa.int/smile

Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will give humankind its first complete look at how Earth reacts to streams of particles and bursts of radiation from the Sun.

[Image description: An artist impression of a spacecraft observing the interaction between the Sun and Earth. The Sun is at the top left, the Earth surrounded by magnetic field lines is at the bottom right, and the spacecraft is at the top between the centre and the right. At the bottom left is the text 'Smile launch kit'. At the top right is the ESA logo and at the bottom right is a red circle with a spacecraft labelled Smile in it.]