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  • NASA’s TRACERS First Results Offers Peek into Violent Magnetic Process 

    This high-contrast orbital photograph captures a spacecraft floating against the jet-black background of outer space. At the center of the frame is the main body of a satellite, appearing as a compact, somewhat reddish structure flanked by bright white reflective panels and a circular central dish. Extending diagonally outward from this core in an asymmetric, cross-like shape are four long, thin metallic booms, or antennas, that glow faintly under sunlight. A vertical white measurement scale stands on the left side with date and distance information above the scale, a stylized white corporate logo reading Vantor sits in the upper right, and a circular data tracking gauge with multicolored vector lines sits in the bottom right corner.

    NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has gathered its first clues to how space weather affects Earth’s magnetic field. In a new paper, researchers break down how these interactions work after analyzing initial observations from the first year of the mission. The two TRACERS spacecraft launched last year to explore how […]