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Scientists Look Beyond Earth To Understand Auroras
The eerie beauty of the
northern and southern lights
has evoked visions of the
supernatural for centuries:
foxes of fire whisking their
tales, the fighting souls of
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Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint The Impact Epicenter Of Earthbound Space Storms
Using data from NASA's
THEMIS mission, researchers
have pinpointed the impact
epicenter of an earthbound
space storm as it crashes
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Solar Storms: Coronal Mass Ejections Viewed In Detail By NASA Spacecraft
Twin NASA spacecraft have
provided scientists with
their first view of the
speed, trajectory, and
three-dimensional shape of
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The Day The Sun Brought Darkness
On March 13, 1989 the entire
province of Quebec, Canada
suffered an electrical power
blackout. Hundreds of
blackouts occur in some part
of North America every year.
The Quebec Blackout was
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Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora On Saturn
November 13, 2008 — Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments ... > full story -
Saturn’s Secondary Aurora Is Much More Like Jupiter’s In Origin Than It Is The Earth’s
June 21, 2008 — Researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results show that Saturn's secondary aurora is much more ... > full story -
Space Weather: Interfering With The Global Positioning System
June 11, 2008 — You can't always trust your GPS gadget. As scientists have long known, perplexing electrical activity in the upper atmospheric zone called the ionosphere can tamper with signals from GPS satellites. ... > full story -
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How Plasma From Superstorms Affects Near-Earth Space
May 31, 2008 — NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interact with Earth's ... > full story -
Spring Is Aurora Season
March 10, 2008 — What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the aurora borealis. ... > full story -
Comet Collides With Solar Hurricane
October 1, 2007 — A NASA satellite has captured the first images of a collision between a comet and a solar hurricane. It is the first time scientists have witnessed such an event on another cosmic ... > full story -
Solar Storm Cycle Will Likely Start Next March, According To NOAA
April 27, 2007 — The next 11-year cycle of solar storms will most likely start next March and peak in late 2011 or mid-2012 -- up to a year later than expected -- according to a forecast recently issued by NOAA's ... > full story -
Surprises From The Sun's South Pole
February 20, 2007 — Although very close to the minimum of its 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun showed that it is still capable of producing a series of remarkably energetic outbursts - ESA-NASA Ulysses mission ... > 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 -
Earth Aurora: Chandra Looks Back At Earth
January 2, 2006 — 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
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