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Scientists find giant solar twists
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have, for the first time, detected giant twisting waves in the lower atmosphere of the Sun, shedding light on the mystery of the Sun's corona (the region around the Sun, extending ...
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Battery Wrapped in Solar Cells Recharges in the Sun
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although you can buy solar charging devices for rechargeable batteries, it would be even more convenient if batteries had built-in solar cells. Sitting in sunlight, the battery could then ...
World solar car race begins in Australia
Oct 25, 2009 |
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A 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across Australia's desert heartland began in the northern city of Darwin Sunday, organisers said.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory arrives at Kennedy Space Center
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Jul 10, 2009 |
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NASA's upcoming mission to study the sun in unprecedented detail and its effects on Earth, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on July 9.
The Sun Loses its Spots
Jul 24, 2007 |
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While sidewalks crackle in the summer heat, NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. It is almost spotless, a sign that the Sun may have reached solar minimum. Scientists are now watching for the ...
NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2008 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic ...
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2008 |
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When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the outlets ...
NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the ...
Astrophysicists find fractal image of Sun's 'Storm Season' imprinted on Solar Wind
May 24, 2007 |
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Plasma astrophysicists at the University of Warwick have found that key information about the Sun’s 'storm season’ is being broadcast across the solar system in a fractal snapshot imprinted in the solar wind. This research ...
Sunspot is harbinger of new solar cycle, increasing risk for electrical systems
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Jan 07, 2008 |
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A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, ...
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