News tagged with dayside magnetopause

Watching solar activity muddle Earth's magnetic field

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 29, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these ...

New hyperspectral imager launched to International Space Station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Following a fast-paced 16 month design and development process, NRL's Remote Sensing and Space Science Divisions and the Naval Center for Space Technology provide the first-ever high quality and real-time ...

Scientists discover surprise in Earth's upper atmosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 10, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (23) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National ...

IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (11) | 8

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to Help Astronauts Survive in Infinity

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 17, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (12) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space seems exotic, forbidding, and remote, but imagine trying to survive winter without a heated shelter or warm clothing. Our ancestors developed these technologies because they needed room ...

SPICE mission to explore the center of the solar system

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 22, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

An imaging coronal spectrograph called SPICE (Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment), designed by scientists and engineers at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder has been selected by ESA and NASA ...

Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...

New one-of-a-kind technology will fly on two NASA missions

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 19, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of Idaho have developed unique new technology that will be used in upcoming NASA missions that will study the Earth and Sun-Earth connection.

Researchers identify new region of the magnetosphere

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 12, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 0

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 fields ...

The Sun Shows Signs of Life

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 10, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (28) | 1

After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ...

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 31, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (151) | 22

During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million ...

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