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NASA Science Missions

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Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) observes particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar,... View Mission

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Fifty miles above the ground, Earth's highest clouds form an icy membrane at the edge of the... View Mission

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Measures what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic... View Mission

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Compact Radiation Belt Explorer (CeREs) will help detect how electrons are energized and lost... View Mission

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ELFIN will explore the mechanisms responsible for the loss of relativistic electrons from the... View Mission

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The GEOTAIL mission is a collaborative project undertaken by the Institute of Space and... View Mission

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The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission of opportunity will fly an... View Mission

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Hinode explores the magnetic fields of the Sun in order to improve understanding of what powers... View Mission

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IBEX is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System... View Mission

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ICON studies the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where Earth weather... View Mission

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Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge... View Mission

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MinXSS CubeSat will study the sun’s impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere by measuring soft X-rays... View Mission

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MMS will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect,... View Mission

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Launch photo of the Parker Solar Probe

Parker Solar Probe is exploring what is arguably the last region of the solar system to be... View Mission

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SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international cooperation between... View Mission

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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the first mission and... View Mission

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This mission addresses how the sun creates and controls the giant bubble of magnetic fields... View Mission

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SORTIE will investigate the underlying causes behind the appearance of plasma structures in the... View Mission

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STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar... View Mission

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TBEx will study how the dynamics and processes in the troposphere can act to cause variability... View Mission

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THEMIS answers longstanding fundamental questions concerning the nature of the substorm... View Mission

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Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) explores the Earth's... View Mission

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The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. As... View Mission

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The Wind spacecraft is the first of two U.S. missions of the Global Geospace Science (GGS)... View Mission