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Cluster Hits The Magnetic Bull's-Eye
July 19, 2006 The European Space Agency's spacecraft constellation Cluster has hit the magnetic bull's-eye. The four spacecraft surrounded a region within which the Earth's magnetic field was spontaneously ... > full story -
New Era In Space Weather Prediction: Scientists Accurately Simulate Appearance Of Sun's Corona During Eclipse
June 26, 2006 The most true-to-life computer simulation ever made of our sun's multimillion-degree outer atmosphere, the corona, successfully predicted its actual appearance during the March 29, 2006, solar ... > full story -
Lab To Build NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes
May 26, 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., will develop and operate twin NASA spacecraft to study how the sun interacts with Earth's radiation belts. Part of NASA's ... > full story -
Cluster Satellites Fly Through Earth's Electrical Switch
May 19, 2006 The European Space Agency's Cluster satellites have flown through regions of the Earth's magnetic field that accelerate electrons to approximately one hundredth the speed of light. The observations ... > full story -
Cluster And Double Star Witness A New Facet Of Earth's Magnetic Behaviour
March 31, 2006 Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic energy as they travelled through Earth's night-time shadow on 5 August ... > full story -
Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast Of Next Sunspot Cycle
March 7, 2006 The next sunspot cycle will be 30 to 50 percent stronger than the last one, and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed ... > full story -
Satellites See Largest Jet Of Particles Created Between Sun And Earth
January 13, 2006 A flotilla of space-weather satellites – ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s ACE and Wind - observed for the first time steady large-scale jets of charged particles in the solar wind between ... > full story -
Earth Aurora: Chandra Looks Back At Earth
December 29, 2005 In an unusual observation, a team of scientists has scanned the northern polar region of Earth with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The results show that the aurora borealis, or "northern lights," ... > full story -
Looking At Atmospheric Disturbances During Space Storms: Researchers Create Unprecedented View Of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
December 6, 2005 Scientists from NASA and the National Science Foundation discovered a way to combine ground and space observations to create an unprecedented view of upper atmosphere disturbances during space ... > full story -
Adaptive Optics Produces Ultrasharp Images Of Sunspot
October 10, 2005 Advanced technologies now available at the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, NM, are revealing striking details inside sunspots and hint at features remaining to be ... > full story
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