Geotail Satellite Still Sending Back Crucial Information after 20 Years of Service
Launched just over twenty years ago, the joint Geotail mission satellite is still operational and sending back crucial information about how aurora form, how energy…
Space Weather
NASA’s Cassini Spots Lightning in Saturn’s Northern Hemisphere
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured an image of lightning striking within a huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere, providing scientists with a great opportunity to…
New Light Shed on the Origins of Extreme Space Storms
Based on data from the Hinode satellite, a newly published study provides the first evidence of plasma upflows traveling at around 20 km per second…
Two CMEs Strongly Compressed the Magnetopause
Simulations show that on June 16, 2012 the combined effects of two coronal mass ejections from AR 1504 compressed the magnetopause to a minimum of…
New Image of an M7.9 Flare from Active Region 1429
NASA released a new image of a solar flare from active region 1429. On March 13, 2012, the sun erupted with an M7.9-class flare that…
NASA Continues to Monitor Solar Flares
As NASA continues to give updates on the solar flares this week, they also put together a nice summary of space weather and the effects…
Image of Twister in Action on the Surface of Mars
A recent image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a twisting column of dust more than…
HFAs and Their Effect on Venus
Scientists are studying hot flow anomalies, HFAs, and their effect on the planet Venus. Unlike Earth, Venus is without a magnetic field and although the…
Magnetic Disturbances Sent Massive Solar Wind Earthward
Powerful magnetic disturbances in Sol’s corona have hurled a large burst of charged particles into space on March 4th. The solar storm erupted from the…