NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind - NASA Science

NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind

A conceptual illustration with a large, yellow, glowing Sun on the right side. Radiating from the Sun is the solar wind, visualized as delicate, sweeping, curved light lines. In the center is a small, dark Earth, surrounded by a large, protective bubble of glowing blue light that forms a tail extending far to the left. The front of this blue bubble is a distinct, fiery red and orange curved barrier, the shock where the solar wind collides with Earth's magnetic field.

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has collected more than ten years of data from this zone – more than scientists can analyze alone. As Shock Detectives, you’ll help sort the chaotic from peaceful regions of the data, giving researchers a crucial set of clues.