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  Cluster Spacecraft Takes First Look at Charged Particles That Drive Brightest Aurora

  April 12, 2010 — Scientists have made the first direct observations of charged particles that lead to some of the brightest aurora using the Cluster ... > full story
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  Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights

  November 25, 2009 — In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high ... > full story
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  Auroras In Northern And Southern Hemispheres Are Not Identical

  July 23, 2009 — Researchers present evidence that the auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres can be totally asymmetric. These findings contradict the commonly made assumption of aurora being mirror ... > full story
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  Scientists Look Beyond Earth To Understand Auroras

  July 19, 2009 — 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 dead warriors or ancestors dancing ... > full story
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  Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint The Impact Epicenter Of Earthbound Space Storms

  May 28, 2009 — Using data from NASA's THEMIS mission, researchers have pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere, and given an advance warning of its ... > full story
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  Solar Storms: Coronal Mass Ejections Viewed In Detail By NASA Spacecraft

  April 14, 2009 — Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. ... > full story
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  The Day The Sun Brought Darkness

  March 16, 2009 — 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 different, ... > full story
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  Discovery Of Warm Plasma Cloak Surrounding Earth, New Region Of Magnetosphere

  December 12, 2008 — A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora On Saturn

  November 12, 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
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  Saturn’s Secondary Aurora Is Much More Like Jupiter’s In Origin Than It Is The Earth’s

  June 19, 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

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