a major character in The Iliad, and the hero of The Odyssey, the two great epics attributed to the Greek poet Homer The Iliad deals with events that occurred in the last year of the Trojan War The Odyssey describes Ulysses' adventures as he returns home after the Trojan War
A NASA space probe that is studying the sun In its passes over the polar regions of the sun in 1994 and 1995, Ulysses revealed the existence of fast solar winds coming from the poles Ulysses will return to the sun in the year 2000 after making a slingshot around Jupiter
Ulysses is a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) mission designed to study the solar environment It is a cornerstone for the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) -- a collection of widely-spaced detectors capable of triangulating the location of a GRB