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13169: Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics (updated)

Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics

Released Monday, September 24, 2018
Updated Friday, November 30, 2018 at 10:01AM

ID: 13076

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<b>Graphic</b><p><p>North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, a magnetic bubble, known as the cusp, surrounds Earth and dips inward, allowing space particles to funnel in toward the planet.<p><p>Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

Animation

The trajectories of several of the Grand Challenge missions.

Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

<b>Booklet</b><p><p>An overview of the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp. A PDF is available below. <p><p>Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

<b>Graphic</b><p><p>An overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp.<p><p>Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

For More Information

See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-joins-international-science-team-in-exploring-auroral-cusp-from-norway

NASA Science: Sun

ACS Andoya Cusp Field Campaign Grand Challenge HDTV Location Magnetic Fields Magnetosphere Norway Sounding Rocket

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Animator
- Trond Abrahamsen (Andøya Space Center)
Graphic designer
- Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith (TRAX International)
Support
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
- Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase)

Missions

This visualization is related to the following missions:

VISualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral atom Sensing-2 (VISIONS-2)

Related pages

- Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics (updated)
  May 9, 2019, noon
  Booklet - pt. 1An overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp with the missions launched as of May 2019. A PDF version is available below.Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith Booklet - pt. 2An overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp with the missions launched as of May 2019. A PDF version is available below.Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith InfographicAn overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp with the missions launched as of May 2019. A PDF version is available below.Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith GraphicAn overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp with the missions launched as of May 2019. A PDF version is available below.Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith For More InformationSee [About the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-joins-international-science-team-in-exploring-auroral-cusp-from-norway)
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