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
Measures what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic... View Mission
Compact Radiation Belt Explorer (CeREs) will help detect how electrons are energized and lost... View Mission
ELFIN will explore the mechanisms responsible for the loss of relativistic electrons from the... View Mission
The GEOTAIL mission is a collaborative project undertaken by the Institute of Space and... View Mission
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission of opportunity will fly an... View Mission
Hinode explores the magnetic fields of the Sun in order to improve understanding of what powers... View Mission
IBEX is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System... View Mission
ICON studies the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where Earth weather... View Mission
Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge... View Mission
MinXSS CubeSat will study the sun’s impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere by measuring soft X-rays... View Mission
MMS will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect,... View Mission
Parker Solar Probe is exploring what is arguably the last region of the solar system to be... View Mission
SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international cooperation between... View Mission
This mission addresses how the sun creates and controls the giant bubble of magnetic fields... View Mission
SORTIE will investigate the underlying causes behind the appearance of plasma structures in the... View Mission
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar... View Mission
TBEx will study how the dynamics and processes in the troposphere can act to cause variability... View Mission
THEMIS answers longstanding fundamental questions concerning the nature of the substorm... View Mission
Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) explores the Earth's... View Mission
The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. As... View Mission
The Wind spacecraft is the first of two U.S. missions of the Global Geospace Science (GGS)... View Mission