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Earth’s magnetosphere decoded: how our invisible shield morphed over ages?

Earth’s magnetic field, generated deep within the planet’s liquid iron core, has been bending, stretching, and occasionally flipping for billions of years. That invisible shield determines whether ...
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Lockheed Martin Scientists Determine Magnetic Reconnection Locations at Earth’s Magnetopause

PALO ALTO, Calif., February 14, 2007 — In a paper published in the February 2007 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, scientists from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) are using ...
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Deriving the magnetopause position from wide field-of-view soft x-ray imager simulation

Imaging techniques provide essential information in astronomical and space physics studies. The Soft X-ray imager (SXI) will obtain images of the Earth’s magnetosphere from solar wind charge exchange ...
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NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to- Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) Shut Down

NASA’s Imager for Magnetopause-to- Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite recently ceased operations, bringing to a close a successful six-year mission. IMAGE was the premier producer of new ...
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NASA Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)

In late 2005, NASA lost one of its satellites called Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE). IMAGE was launched from Vandenberg AFB on March 25, 2000; its mission was to observe ...