Wednesday, May 22, 2013

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


NASA’s BARREL mission launches 20 balloons

Posted: 21 May 2013 10:45 AM PDT

In Antarctica in January, 2013 -- the summer at the South Pole -- scientists released 20 balloons, each eight stories tall, into the air to help answer an enduring space weather question: when the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth lose material, where do the extra particles actually go?

NASA's IRIS mission readies for a new challenge

Posted: 21 May 2013 10:43 AM PDT

NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind. In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will advance our understanding of the interface region, a region in the lower atmosphere of the sun where most of the sun's ultraviolet emissions are generated. Such emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate.

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