Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics

  • Released Monday, September 24, 2018
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GraphicNorth 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.Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

Graphic

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.

Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

Animation

The trajectories of several of the Grand Challenge missions.

Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

GraphicAn overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp.Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

Graphic

An overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp.

Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

BookletAn overview of the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp. A PDF is available below. Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

Booklet

An overview of the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp. A PDF is available below.

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

Credits

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Monday, September 24, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.

Missions

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