Magnetosphere

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere – NASA Science

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NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere – NASA Science

NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view of the magnetic environment that shields Earth from solar radiation. This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14739.Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Source link

Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries – NASA

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Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries – NASA

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first — and, so far, only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet. Alongside … Read more