Exploring the Sun’s Invisible Shield: NASA’s IMAP Mission To Map the Heliosphere
NASA's IMAP mission will delve into the mysteries of the heliosphere, mapping its boundaries and studying solar wind ...
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How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem
Transparency of funding is necessary to achieve trust, but insufficient on its own. It must be accompanied by a transparent reporting of the organization’s activities to understand what it’s doing and ...
New model predicts solar storm particle acceleration and escape
The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...
Exploring Earth’s Edge: How NASA’s TES-22 Is Tackling Space Debris and the Thermosphere
NASA's TES-22 CubeSat launched with tech that speeds up satellite deorbiting to clear space debris. It carries technology to ...
NASA's IMAP instrument installations complete
With the installation of a charged particle detector on Dec. 3, 2024, all 10 of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration ...
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Martian Moon Phobos Eclipse The Sun
The Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...
Mars's rare disappearing solar wind event explained
Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Florida in debut mission
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its first New Glenn rocket Thursday morning from Florida, an inaugural step into Earth's ...
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Here's what NASA is sending to the moon on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander
Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...
We finally know what the Sun sounds like - and it's surprisingly retro
The Sun has just dropped its latest album. With all the boiling and bubbling gases, our closest star is a seriously noisy ...
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Spacecraft makes closest-ever fly-by of Sun: what the trip will tell us
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe could solve the mysteries of the solar wind and test Einstein’s theory of relativity.