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Article: NASA, ESA SELECT SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS FOR SOLAR ORBITER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 24, 2009
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WASHINGTON, March 20 -- NASA issued the following press release:
NASA and the European Space Agency have selected 10 proposals for science instruments to fly aboard a spacecraft that will study the sun from a unique vantage point in space.
The European-led mission, called the Solar Orbiter, will be positioned about one-fourth the distance Earth is from the sun. The location ultimately will enhance the ability for scientists worldwide to forecast space weather.
Space weather can produce electromagnetic fields on Earth that induce extreme currents in wires, disrupting power lines, causing wide-spread blackouts and affecting communication cables that support the Internet. Severe space weather ...