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Colorful Solar Instrument Treks East for a New CareerTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 02, 2012 One of the world's most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars. The Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) recently ended its career with the National Solar Observatory (NSO) at Kitt Peak, AZ and is being shipped to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, with delivery scheduled for February 9th. There it will operate under the direction of Dr. Peter Bernath, chair of the ODU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is a lo ... read more |
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 Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe Blue Marble By Suomi NPP Is Russia's Space Program Viable? Project NEOShield: Asteroid defence systems Unraveling a Butterfly's Aerial Antics Could Help Builders of Bug-Size Flying Robots Do black holes help stars form? Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link Roscosmos Aims to Make Sea Launch Profitable Mission to Land on a Comet VIIRS Eastern Hemisphere Image - Behind the Scenes ORS-1, ground system gain final ops acceptance First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument Asteroids: The New 'It Mission' for Space Exploration Software Enables Efficient Planning of MESSENGER Observations | .. |
 NASA's THEMIS Satellite Sees a Great Electron Escape When scientists discovered two great swaths of radiation encircling Earth in the 1950s, it spawned over-the-top fears about "killer electrons" and space radiation effects on Earthlings. The fears we ... more | .. |
 Space Weather Center to Add World's First 'Ensemble Forecasting' Capability After years of relative somnolence, the sun is beginning to stir. By the time it's fully awake in about 20 months, the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., charged with rese ... more | .. |
 SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ra ... more | .. |
 X1.8 Solar Flare and CME The sun unleashed an X1.8 class flare that began at 1:12 PM ET on January 27, 2012 and peaked at 1:37. The flare immediately caused a strong radio blackout at low-latitudes, which was rated an R3 on ... more |
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 Classifying Solar Eruptions Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more | .. |
 Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth Solar radiation from a massive sun storm - the largest in nearly a decade - collided with the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays. ... more | .. |
 NRL's SoloHI Instrument Selected for Flight on Solar Orbiter Mission The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter ... more | .. |
 Elusive Matter Found To Be Abundant Far Above Earth 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 ... more |
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 M8.7 Solar Flare and Earth Directed CME The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic par ... more | .. |
Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Science Nugget: SDO Helps Measure Magnetic Fields on the Sun's Surface A subset of data that helps map out the sun's magnetic fields was recently released from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Observations that measure the strength and direction of magnetic ... more | .. |
 Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more |
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 Cluster reveals Earth bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more | .. |
Cluster reveals Earth's bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more | .. |
 Why the solar wind is rhombic-shaped Why the temperatures in the solar wind are almost the same in certain directions, and why different energy densities are practically identical, was until now not clear. With a new approach to ... more | .. |
2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worr ... more |
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 Giant solar flare detected A giant sunspot that erupted last week has been ranked as one of the largest solar flares seen in years, U.S. scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Hinode's First Light and Five More Years On October 28, 2006, the Hinode solar mission was at last ready. The spacecraft launched on September 22, but such missions require a handful of diagnostics before the instruments can be turned on a ... more | .. |
 A Solar Cycle Primer From SDO Telescopes spotted the first blemish on the Sun in 1611. While the Sun had long been thought - at least in the Western world - to be an unchanging, "perfect" orb, sky-watchers observed black sunspot ... more | .. |
 STEREO Mission Celebrates Five Incredible Years of Science 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 Observator ... more |
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 UNH Scientists Land Roles in European and Japanese Space Missions Scientists and engineers from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have been selected to provide instruments for two upcoming satellite missions led by the European Space Age ... more | .. |
 PPPL scientists bring mysterious magnetic process down to earth With the click of a computer mouse, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) sends 10,000 volts of electricity into a chamber filled with hydrogen ga ... more | .. |
 Space weather prediction model improves NOAA's forecast skill NOAA is now using a sophisticated forecast model that substantially improves predictions of space weather impacts on Earth. Better forecasts offer additional protection for people and the technology ... more | .. |
 NASA Developing Instruments For New Solar Orbiter Mission NASA will begin development and testing of two science instruments, in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), to be placed on ESA's newly selected Solar Orbiter mission. The spacecraft wi ... more |
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