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"alt_text": "Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere help protect our planet from the effects of solar energetic particles (and cosmic rays).",
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"title": "NASA’s TRACERS Studies Magnetic Explosions Above Earth",
"description": "NASA's TRACERS mission, or the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will fly in low Earth orbit through the polar cusps, funnel-shaped holes in the magnetic field, to study magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a mysterious process that happens when the solar wind, made of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun, collides with Earth's magnetic shield, causing magnetic field lines to violently snap and explosively fling away particles at high speeds. This process has huge impacts on Earth, from causing breathtaking auroras to disrupting communications and power grids on Earth. TRACERS is launching no earlier than summer 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Find out more about the TRACERS mission and how it will help us better understand the ways space weather affects us on Earth: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ",
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"alt_text": "Produced VideoWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Music Credit: \"Praxis I,” “Three Voices,” and “Die Vogel” by Alexis Francois Georges Delong [SACEM], “Anticipation” by Nicholas Smith [PRS], “Ocean Wisdom” by Hugo Dubery and Philippe Galtier [SACEM], and “Call from the Sea” by MACARON [SACEM] from Universal Production MusicAdditional Video and Animations: University of Iowa, Southwest Research Institute, Millennium Space Systems, Andøya Space / Trond AbrahamsenSound Effects: Pixabay",
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"title": "NASA Explores Earth's Magnetic \"Dent\"",
"description": "Music: \"Now We Wait\" by Kamal David Kamruddin [PRS]This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Artbeats is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.Complete transcript available. || South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Still_2.jpg (1920x1080) [346.0 KB] || South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Still_2_print.jpg (1024x576) [139.2 KB] || South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Still_2_searchweb.png (320x180) [43.0 KB] || South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Still_2_web.png (320x180) [43.0 KB] || South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Still_2_thm.png (80x40) [4.8 KB] || 13688_South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Fine.mov (1920x1080) [2.6 GB] || 13688_South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Fine.webm (960x540) [65.7 MB] || 13688_South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Fine.mp4 (1920x1080) [292.9 MB] || 13688_South_Atlantic_Anomaly_Fine_lowres.mp4 (1280x720) [52.3 MB] || SAA.en_US.srt [3.5 KB] || SAA.en_US.vtt [3.5 KB] || ",
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"alt_text": "Music: \"Now We Wait\" by Kamal David Kamruddin [PRS]This video can be freely shared and downloaded. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, some individual imagery provided by pond5.com and Artbeats is obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on stock footage may be found here. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html.Complete transcript available.",
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"description": "These animations show how Earth’s magnetosphere responds as it encounters the slow and fast solar wind.The solar wind is a plasma made of ions and electrons that have escaped the Sun. The solar wind streams outwards in all directions, filling the spaces between the planets and carrying with it the Sun’s magnetic field. When the solar wind reaches Earth’s magnetosphere, the region of space surrounding our planet where Earth’s magnetic field is dominant, the magnetosphere can respond differently depending on the speed of the solar wind, as demonstrated here. || ",
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"alt_text": "This artist’s concept shows a representative state of Earth’s magnetosphere immersed in the so-called “slow” solar wind, which averages between about 180 - 300 miles per second (approx. 300 - 500 kilometers per second). The slow solar wind originates from coronal streamers and other solar features most commonly found around the Sun’s equator, which make the slow solar wind the typical state of the solar wind along the equatorial plane in which the planets orbit.",
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