Exploring the Sun’s Invisible Shield: NASA’s IMAP Mission To Map the Heliosphere
NASA's IMAP mission will delve into the mysteries of the heliosphere, mapping its boundaries and studying solar wind ...
Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...
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It survived! NASA’s Parker Solar Probe just phoned home
“Previous close passes have helped scientists pinpoint the origins of structures in the solar wind and map the outer boundary of the sun’s atmosphere.” NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was ...
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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA's Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind
gathered up from wisps of solar wind accumulated over hundreds of days by the Genesis spacecraft as it loitered at Lagrange Point 1, a select spot in space between Earth and the sun. The capsule ...
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NASA spacecraft phones home after closest pass of the Sun
On Tuesday morning, the space agency's Parker Solar Probe ... scientists pinpoint the origins of structures in the solar wind and map the outer boundary of the Sun's atmosphere.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Survives Closest-Ever Approach To The Sun
The solar wind is the continuous flow ... in the solar wind and have helped map out the outer boundary of the Sun's atmosphere. Guardians in space are increasingly seen as an inevitability as ...
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Solar wind squashed Uranus’s magnetosphere during Voyager 2 flyby
Jasinski and colleagues came to their conclusions by analysing Voyager 2 data of the solar wind (a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun) upstream of Uranus for the few days before the ...