Earth’s Magnetic Field
Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, private companies, and academic institutions are developing the first space-based quantum…
Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a…
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After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the…
An alert pops up in your email: The latest spacecraft observations are ready. You now have 24 hours to scour…
A small but evolving dent in Earth’s magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites. Earth’s magnetic field acts like…
The space high above Earth may seem empty, but it’s a carnival packed with magnetic field lines and high-energy particles.…
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