THEMIS Discovers Biggest Breach of Earth's Magnetosphere
NASA's THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth's protective magnetic field. This new discovery could help scientists predict when the solar storms that can disrupt power grids, satellites and even GPS signals, could be especially severe.
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
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Video editors
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
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Narrator
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
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Producer
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
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Scientist
- David G. Sibeck (NASA/GSFC)
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Videographers
- Jefferson Beck (UMBC)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (UMBC)
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Writer
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, December 15, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
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