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The twin probes will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.News conference panelists are:— Madhulika Guhathakurta, Living With a Star program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington— Mona Kessel, RBSP program scientist, NASA Headquarters— Barry Mauk, RBSP project scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md.— Rick Fitzgerald, RBSP project manager, APL, Laurel, Md. || ", "release_date": "2012-08-09T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:52:51.514000-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 473438, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011000/a011027/EMFISIS_Still.png", "filename": "EMFISIS_Still.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation showing RBSP's deployment of its solar arrays and the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) magnetometer booms.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 10821, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10821/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Sun's Weather Encompasses Earth", "description": "The sun regularly spews forth bursts of particles and magnetic fields known as a coronal mass ejection, or, CME. A CME starts small in solar terms—just a few hundred times the size of the Earth—but it grows and changes as it travels toward the edges of the solar system. Scientists have been observing these events with satellites for decades, but tracking the details of an ejection's growth from original seed to complex structure near Earth has been more challenging. In fact, scientists recently used three NASA spacecraft—STEREO-A, WIND and ACE—to create the first visual record of a CME's path from the sun to the Earth. The orbiting instruments captured the CME's birth on Dec. 12, 2008 at the sun's surface, its exponential growth and its ultimate engulfing of the Earth about three days later. These ejections are common but large solar events can alter our magnetic atmosphere to such a degree that communications signals from GPS or telecom satellites are temporarily degraded beyond recognition. This visualization allowed scientists to watch how features early in the CME ultimately create the form seen closer to Earth, with a bright leading edge and trailing evacuated cavity. || ", "release_date": "2011-09-13T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:37.827310-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 483527, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010800/a010821/heliosphere_cover_1024x576.jpg", "filename": "heliosphere_cover_1024x576.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch what scientists have just recorded for the first time: explosive space weather from start to finish.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 3847, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3847/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "From the Sun to the Earth: STEREO tracks a CME", "description": "For many years, the idea that coronal mass ejections (CME) launched from the Sun and could strike the Earth was inferred from an indirect chain of evidence collected from multiple satellites. Now the Heliospheric Imagers aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft has managed to view a CME propagate from the surface of the Sun to the Earth.This visualization shows the position of the STEREO spacecraft during the event, as well as the positions of the inner solar system planets, Venus and Mercury. A faint cone illustrates the field-of-view (FOV) of the HI-2 imager on STEREO-A. The position of the front of the CME is computed from STEREO data. || ", "release_date": "2011-08-18T14:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-01-02T13:27:44.223610-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 484034, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003847/STEREOCMEc.0885_ipad_poster_frame.jpg", "filename": "STEREOCMEc.0885_ipad_poster_frame.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "This movie conceptually illustrates the launch of the CME from the Sun and its propagation to the Earth.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } ], "sources": [], "products": [], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }