NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets – NASA Science

NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets – NASA Science

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission’s trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth’s surface to … Read more

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora – NASA Science

NASA’s EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth’s Aurora – NASA Science

High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second. They can create some of the largest magnetic disturbances on the ground, and rapid changes in the currents can … Read more