News tagged with solar shield
Protecting the North American power grid from widespread blackouts
Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2010 |
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UD researcher on project team for NASA's first visit to the sun
A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 06, 2010 |
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CfA will play major role in mission to 'touch' the sun
When NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) launches before the end of the decade, it will carry a suite of cutting-edge scientific instruments. Only one - the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investi ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun's atmosphere
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2010 |
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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