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Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, Coronal Mass Ejection
September 29, 2012 — The sun erupted with a wide, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection on Sept. 27, 2012 at 10:25 p.m. ... > full story -
New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement
September 12, 2012 — In the very early hours of Sept. 1 -- just under two days since the 4:05 a.m. EDT launch of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes -- the team at the RBSP Mission Operations Center (MOC) controlling ... > full story -
NASA Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Passes Major Review
September 5, 2012 — On August 31, 2012, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission proved it was ready for its next steps by passing what's called a Systems Integration Review (SIR), which deems a mission ready to ... > full story -
NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun
September 4, 2012 — On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled ... > full story -
NASA Launches Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
August 30, 2012 — NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet's radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05 a.m. EDT Thursday from Cape ... > full story -
ACE, Workhorse of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15
August 29, 2012 — The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is Earth's vanguard. Orbiting around a point 900,000 miles away between Earth and our sun, this satellite is ever vigilant, recording the combination of ... > full story -
Twin Satellites Will Help Improve Space Weather Forecasts
August 21, 2012 — On Aug. 24, NASA will launch two identical satellites from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin its Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission to study the extremes of space weather and help scientists improve ... > full story -
Sun's Plasma Loops Recreated in the Lab to Help Understand Solar Physics
August 21, 2012 — In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they are still ... > full story -
NASA STEREO Observes One of the Fastest CMEs on Record
August 13, 2012 — On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along ... > full story -
New System Could Predict Solar Flares, Give Advance Warning
August 13, 2012 — Researchers may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur, providing advance warning to help protect satellites, power grids and astronauts from ... > full story
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