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Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...
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First direct evidence of lightning on Mars detected
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say University of Michigan researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet.
Twin space probe design phase begins
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Apr 21, 2008 |
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The U.S. space agency said design has started on its radiation storm probes -- twin spacecraft that will be launched into the Earth's radiation belts.
New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
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Sep 14, 2009 |
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Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km ...
Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms
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May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...
Cyclone Cleo back down to tropical storm status
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Cleo has run into wind shear and it has weakened it from a cyclone to a tropical storm. Cleo's maximum sustained winds are now down to 69 mph, and expected to continue falling. NASA's TRMM satellite noticed ...
Tropical Cyclone 05B forms southeast of Chennai, India
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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Tropical Cyclone 05B has formed out of "System 96B" in the Northern Indian Ocean and is forecast to approach southeastern India by Sunday, December 13 and make landfall on Monday.
Screaming CMEs Warn of Radiation Storms
May 28, 2007 |
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A CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) is a solar body slam to our high-tech civilization. CMEs begin when the sun launches a billion tons of electrically conducting gas (plasma) into space at millions of miles per hour. A CME cloud ...
Tropical Cyclone Mick forms quickly, hits Fiji in the southwestern Pacific
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Tropical Cyclone Mick formed over the weekend in the southwestern Pacific Ocean and made a quick landfall over Fiji's main island of Viti Levu earlier today, December 14. Mick made landfall as a Category ...
Understanding Killer Electrons in Space
Jul 10, 2007 |
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Settling a longstanding scientific debate, Los Alamos scientists have demonstrated conclusively how electromagnetic waves accelerate ordinary electrons in the belts of radiation outside Earth's atmosphere to a state where ...
Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...
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