TWINS/IBEX spacecraft observed impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 08:31
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles and interacted with the invisible magnetic field surrounding Earth, according to a paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research.