News tagged with stereo spacecraft
New NASA dawn visuals show Vesta's 'color palette'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta ...
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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STEREO mission celebrates five incredible years of science
(PhysOrg.com) -- On October 25, 2006 a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory ...
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Oct 27, 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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Study reveals structures of solar wind as it travels toward, impacts Earth (w/ video)
Using data collected by NASA's STEREO spacecraft, researchers at Southwest Research Institute and the National Solar Observatory have developed the first detailed images of solar wind structures as plasma ...
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Aug 18, 2011 |
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Dawn beams back asteroid science data
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dawn spacecraft has completed a graceful spiral into the first of four planned science orbits during the spacecraft's yearlong visit to Vesta. The spacecraft started taking detailed observations ...
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Aug 12, 2011 |
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Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into ...
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Jun 17, 2011 |
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STEREO sees complete far side of the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- The far side unveiled! This is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth. Captured on June 1, 2011, the composite image was assembled from NASA's ...
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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STEREO turns its steady gaze on variable stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered 122 new eclipsing binary stars and observed hundreds more variable stars in an innovative survey using NASA's two STEREO solar satellites. The survey has been carried ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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First ever STEREO images of the entire Sun (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's official: The sun is a sphere.
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Feb 07, 2011 |
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First ever whole sun view coming soon from STEREO
"For the first time in the history of humankind we will be able to see the front and the far side of the sun ... Simultaneously," Madhulika Guhathakurta told Universe Today. Guhathakurta is the STEREO Program ...
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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Global eruption rocks the sun
On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Sneak Attacks from the Sun
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our Sun can be a menace when it sends out powerful solar blasts of radiation towards the Earth. Astronomers keenly watch the Sun to learn more about what powers these solar eruptions, in hopes ...
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Solar storms can change directions, surprising forecasters
Solar storms don't always travel in a straight line. But once they start heading in our direction, they can accelerate rapidly, gathering steam for a harder hit on Earth's magnetic field.
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Sep 23, 2010 |
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STEREO Reveals Solar Storm Related to Failure Aboard Communications Satellite
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed Naval Research Laboratory scientists to see recent solar activity that may have produced ...
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Jul 07, 2010 |
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STEREO, SOHO spacecraft catch comet diving into sun (w/ Video)
Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun.
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May 24, 2010 |
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