NASA selects Johns Hopkins APL space weather mission for 2024 launch
The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer will study the auroral electrojet, electrical currents flowing 60-90 miles above the north and south poles By Geoff Brown / Published Jan 8, 2021
A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory-led mission to explore electric currents in Earth s atmosphere that link the aurora to our planet s magnetosphere has been selected by NASA to move forward to a scheduled launch in 2024.
The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, EZIE, is a set of three small spacecraft that will study the auroral electrojet, which are electrical currents flowing about 60 to 90 miles above the poles that link the beautiful aurora to the Earth s magnetosphere, and which responds to solar activity and other drivers.
From the International Space Station’s orbit 269 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, this nighttime photograph captures the aurora australis, or southern lights. Russia s Soyuz MS-12 crew ship is in the foreground and Progress 72 resupply ship in the background. Credits: NASA.
NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth.
Together, NASA’s contribution to the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, or EZIE, will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.
Understanding the physics that drive the solar wind and solar explosions – including solar flares and coronal mass ejections – could one day help scientists predict these events, which can impact human technology and explorers in space.
The missions will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system. Author: Brandon Moseley alreporter.com Updated: 10:57 AM CST January 1, 2021
WASHINGTON NASA announced Tuesday that it has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth.
NASA said in a statement that together, NASA’s contribution to the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, or EZIE, will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.
Thomas Zurbuchen is the associate administrator for science at NASA headquarters in Washington.
From the International Space Station’s orbit 269 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, this nighttime photograph captures the aurora australis, or “southern lights.” Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 crew ship is in the foreground and Progress 72 resupply ship in the background. (Credits: NASA)
ASHINGTON (NASA PR) NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. Together, NASA’s contribution to the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, or EZIE, will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.
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From the International Space Stations orbit 269 miles above the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia, this nighttime photograph captures the aurora australis, or “southern lights.” Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 crew ship is in the foreground and Progress 72 resupply ship in the background.
Credits: NASA
NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. Together, NASAs contribution to the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, or EZIE, will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.