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NASA Selects Investigations For Solar Dynamics Observatory
August 21, 2002 — NASA has selected three proposals for implementation for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) mission. The SDO is the first in a series of missions in the Living With a Star (LWS) Program. SDO flight ... > full story -
25 Years Later, Voyager Mission Keeps Pushing The Space Envelope
August 19, 2002 — A quarter-century after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft departed Earth to visit outer planets, the historic mission is flying a race against ... > full story -
Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events In Solar Wind
July 26, 2002 — Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have applied data analysis methods used to model stock market fluctuations, to explore changes in the solar wind (the sun's expanding atmosphere). ... > full story -
The Sun: A Great Ball Of Iron?
July 17, 2002 — For years, scientists have assumed that the sun is an enormous mass of hydrogen. But in a poster presentation to be delivered July 21-26 at the Meteoritical Society's annual meeting in Los ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Discover Possible Nanodiamond Formation In The Early Solar System
July 12, 2002 — An astrophysicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics has found that some nanodiamonds, the most famous and exotic form of stardust, may ... > full story -
Stormy Solar Weather Plays The Sun Like A Guitar
July 8, 2002 — Huge loops of very hot, electrified gas rising above the Sun's surface vibrate with enormous energy at times of solar storms, like the strings of an immense guitar. This is the latest surprise ... > full story -
100,000-Year Climate Pattern Linked To Sun's Magnetic Cycles
June 7, 2002 — Thanks to new calculations by a Dartmouth geochemist, scientists are now looking at the earth's climate history in a new light. Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, ... > full story -
Giant Loops In The Solar Atmosphere May Trigger Sun's Magnetic Poles Reversals, New Study Reveals
June 6, 2002 — New findings by Stanford astronomers may help solve one of the most baffling questions in solar science: What causes the Sun's magnetic poles to flip-flop every 11 years? Understanding the forces ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Provides Critical Link In Sun-Earth Chain
May 30, 2002 — NASA's TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft recently observed our atmosphere's response to a series of strong solar storms, providing important new ... > full story -
Hypervelocity Winds Rage In The Sun's Atmosphere
May 16, 2002 — Winds of electrified gas rip through the solar atmosphere at nearly the speed of sound there, according to new observations from NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft ... > full story
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