New Model Advances the Understanding of How Solar Wind Works
A newly published study uses a new model to demonstrate ion-cyclotron resonant heating in solar wind; representing a major advance in the understanding of how…
Space Weather
New Equations to Better Understand Solar Wind
A scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has created a set of equations that will lead to more realistic simulations of solar wind turbulence…
NASA’s THEMIS Mission Tracks Space Weather & the Magnetosphere
Launched in 2007, the THEMIS mission has helped highlight a number of crucial details about what causes space weather events and has dramatically improved our…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Filament Explosion
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a spectacular video of a filament eruption from Sol, which occurred on August 31st. The segment is in red,…
Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt to be Probed by NASA Satellites
On August 23rd, NASA will launch the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, a pair of specially designed satellites to gather information about the Earth’s Van Allen…
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…
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…
