Sun ID: 13076

Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics

Released on September 24, 2018

There is a newer version of this story located here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13169

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

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For More Information

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-joins-international-science-team-in-exploring-auroral-cusp-from-norway

Credits

Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith (TRAX International): Graphic Designer
Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase): Support
Joy Ng (USRA): Support
Trond Abrahamsen (Andøya Space Center): Animator

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
VISualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral atom Sensing-2 - VISIONS-2

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Magnetic Fields
SVS >> Magnetosphere
GCMD >> Location >> Norway
GCMD >> Location >> Cusp
SVS >> ACS
NASA Science >> Sun
SVS >> Sounding Rocket
SVS >> Field Campaign
SVS >> Grand Challenge
SVS >> Andoya

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0