Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet interacts with the solar wind and moons swept by Jupiter’s magnetic field. Unlike Earth’s northern lights, the largest moons of Jupiter create their own auroral signatures in the planet’s atmosphere […]
Category: Auroras
Eclipses, Auroras, and the Spark of Becoming: NASA Inspires Future Scientists
In the heart of Alaska’s winter, where the night sky stretches endlessly and the aurora dances across the sky in a display of ethereal beauty, nine undergraduate students from across the United States were about to embark on a transformative journey. These students had been active ‘NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassadors’ in their home communities, nine […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
- Auroras
- Curiosity (Rover)
- Earth's Magnetic Field
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
- Heliophysics
- Heliophysics Division
- Magnetosphere
- Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
- Mars Odyssey
- MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
- NASA Centers & Facilities
- NASA Directorates
- Science & Research
- Science Mission Directorate
- Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The Solar System
- THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)
What NASA Is Learning from the Biggest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years
One year on, NASA scientists are still making huge discoveries about the largest geomagnetic storm to hit Earth in two decades, the Gannon storm. The findings are helping us better understand and prepare for the ways in which the Sun’s activity can affect us. One year ago today, representatives from NASA and about 30 other […]
How Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54
How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need to be in the right place at the right time. Auroras are the result of charged particles and magnetism from the Sun called space weather dancing with the Earth’s magnetic field. And they happen far above the clouds. So you need […]
How Can I See the Northern Lights? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 54
How can I see the northern lights? To see the northern lights, you need to be in the right place at the right time. Auroras are the result of charged particles and magnetism from the Sun called space weather dancing with the Earth’s magnetic field. And they happen far above the clouds. So you need […]
NASA’s EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth’s Electrojets
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 […]