News tagged with space plasmas
Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our planet's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Cassini chronicles life of Saturn's giant storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Journal receives its first paper from space
EPL (Europhysics Letters) has today gone beyond Earthly limits by publishing its first ever paper submitted from space.
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Space storm tracked from sun to earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Zubrin claims VASIMR is a hoax
A next-generation plasma rocket being developed by former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz called the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) has been touted as a way to get astronauts to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Zapping deadly bacteria using space technology
Technology developed with ESA funding and drawing on long-running research aboard the International Space Station is opening up a new way to keep hospital patients safe from infections.
May 27, 2011 |
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Goddard building instrument to study reconnection
Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Reconnection occurs when magnetic ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2011 |
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School pupils to study space radiation belts
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Van Allen radiation belts are a hazardous environment, full of 'killer' electrons that can be lethal to orbiting satellites. And when those electrons sometimes hit the atmosphere, they ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Catching space weather in the act
Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As you move ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2011 |
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First large-Scale, physics-based space weather model transitions into operation
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first large-scale, physics-based space weather prediction model is transitioning from research into operation.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2011 |
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Cassini completes Rhea flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning raw images of the icy moon's surface.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2011 |
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The many faces of the shear Alfven wave
Scientists show that 3-D movies are no longer just for Hollywood blockbusters.
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth (w/ Video)
Researchers using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Scientists Explore the Mystery of Active Region Outflows
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Hinode spacecraft that launched in September 2006 contains the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), which provides measurements of properties of the solar corona such ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Scientists Use Atomic Physics Codes to Study Coronal Mass Ejections
(PhysOrg.com) -- Giant eruptions of ionized gas, or plasma, from the Sun called coronal mass ejections [CMEs] produce solar energetic particles that cause spacecraft anomalies and communication interruptions, ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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