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All Articles Tagged As: aurora
Experiments discover a 3-D process by which magnetic reconnection can release energy
faster than expected by classical theories.
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 | Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New research shows that aurorae on distant "hot Jupiters" could be 100-1000 times brighter than Earthly aurorae. They also would ripple from equator to poles (due to the planet's proximity to any stellar eruptions), treating the entire planet to an otherworldly spectacle. ...> Full Article |
A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andoya Rocket Range into aurora about 200 miles above Earth early Sunday morning (Dec. 12, 2010), just before the two-week launch window slammed shut.
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 | Two spacecraft are starting to study the moon's environment as part of a NASA mission called ARTEMIS, whose principal investigator is Vassilis Angelopoulos, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences. ...> Full Article |
 | New space research published in the journal Nature has settled decades of scientific debate, with benefits for the satellite, power grid and aviation industries. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists from Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) announced today that they have sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity. ...> Full Article |
 | A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. ...> Full Article |
Second mission a success in 2009 rocket campaign at Poker Flat Research Range
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 | Airplanes that fly over the northern polar region can risk losing radio contact for several hours when the northern lights are at their most active in the skies. In the near future a Norwegian rocket hopes find the explanation for this. ...> Full Article |
 | Explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon powers the Northern Lights. ...> Full Article |
 | Space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of energy that causes the spectacular brightening of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. ...> Full Article |
 | Cluster listens to the sounds of aurora, in hopes of using the technology to find other planets and stars. ...> Full Article |
 | An international team of scientists has detected that some of the glow of Earth's aurora is polarized, an unexpected state for such emissions ...> Full Article |
 | One of the most dynamic events in the interaction between the Sun and the Earth is a 'substorm', an explosive reshaping of the Earth's outer magnetic field. To better understand substorms, scientists in Europe and North America are studying them from space using the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) satellites launched by NASA in 2007 and from the ground using a network of all-sky cameras. ...> Full Article |
 | Cluster data has helped provide scientists with a new view of magnetospheric processes, challenging existing theories about magnetic substorms that cause aurorae and perturbations in GPS signals. ...> Full Article |
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