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Colorful Science Sheds Light on Solar Heating
Nicki Viall creates images of the sun reminiscent of Van Gogh, with broad strokes of bright color splashed on a yellow background. The color of each pixel contains information about the history of heating on the sun.
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Heliophysics Nugget: Riding the Plasma Wave
Data from the WAVES instrument on NASA's Wind mission provide evidence for a type of plasma wave moving faster than theory predicted it could move. This suggests that a different process may be driving the waves.
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Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target
Two giant donuts of radiation surround Earth, trapped in a region known as the Van Allen Radiation Belts. NASA's RBSP mission will study the material, called plasma, in this mysterious region.
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HI-C Sounding Rocket Mission Launches Successfully
The HI-C Sounding Rocket launched successfully on July 11, 2012. HI-C is the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona.
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SUMI Sounding Rocket Mission Launches Successfully
On July 5, NASA successfully launched SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields in the sun's chromosphere.
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Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field
A NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find X-points, places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun.
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Hi-C to Investigate Activity in Solar Atmosphere
The Marshall Center is leading an international effort to launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, from the White Sands Missile Range.
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SDO/EVE Sounding Rocket Launches Successfully
Based on the quicklook realtime data, all of the rocket EVE instrument channels appear to have made excellent solar EUV irradiance measurements.
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Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling toward the edge of the solar system for 35 years and is perched to enter the realm of interstellar space.
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Data From NASA's Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future
New data from NASA's Voyager 1 indicate that the spacecraft is drawing ever closer to exiting our solar system and entering interstellar space.