News tagged with space storm
Early warning system would predict space storms on Mars
Space weather storms will make living on Mars challenging. The first group of colonists won't need umbrellas; they will need safe houses with 30-foot thick walls made of Martian clay that can withstand radiation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Shocking recipe for making killer electrons (w/ Video)
Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2010 |
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NASA probes hit moon twice (Update 2)
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA eyes Hilda's Hawaiian hangout -- south of the islands
Tropical Storm Hilda is hanging on to tropical storm force winds, and continues to track south of the Hawaiian Islands. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite noticed some moderate rainfall in ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Thunderstorms cause 5th delay for space shuttle
(AP) -- Thunderstorms once again forced NASA to call off the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on Monday, the fifth delay for the space station construction mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Astronauts board space shuttle for evening launch
(AP) -- After enduring a month's delay, seven astronauts boarded space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday for an early evening flight to the international space station.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 12, 2009 |
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Storms NASA's only worry for shuttle launch
(AP) -- Thunderstorms are threatening to delay NASA's planned launch Saturday of space shuttle Endeavour.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Fake Astronaut Gets Hit by Artificial Solar Flare
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1972, Apollo astronauts narrowly escaped a potential catastrophe. On August 2nd of that year, a large and angry sunspot appeared and began to erupt, over and over again for more than a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2009 |
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New Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, But Not Necessarily Less Activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle, stating that Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. Led by ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Bad weather may disrupt shuttle landing schedule
(AP) -- Astronauts are conserving power on the space shuttle Atlantis because bad weather in Florida may keep them in orbit longer than planned.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 20, 2009 |
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Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise
(AP) -- When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, one ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 08, 2009 |
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THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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