Officials from NASA's headquarters, in Washington DC, gave the final confirmation to the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) misson, whose main objective is to analyze one of the most basic phenomena in the Universe, namely magnetic reconnection. Scheduled for launch in Apr... |
22 June 2009
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The dynamics of explosive magnetic substorms, responsible for generating the aurora borealis and for the interferences affecting both satellites in Earth's orbit and electric and electronic devices on the surface, have now been revealed by NASA's five THEMIS spacecrafts, solving a mystery that has been a ce... |
25 July 2008
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On April 9, a coronal mass ejection weighing about a billion tons emerged from the surface of the Sun and, to the surprise of physicists, executed a cartwheel. At the same time, part of the mass of matter made a backflip in what now appears to be just a regular way for solar explosions to behave. "What a rare and exc... |
29 May 2008
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Because plasma is mostly composed of charged particles, such as electrons and ions, which have a global neutral charge, it is able to generate powerful magnetic fields, a very important feature if you ask a nuclear physicist working on the design of a nuclear fusion reactor. However, all good things must also have ba... |
31 January 2008
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