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A solar storm happens when a coronal mass ejection leaves the Sun headed towards Earth. The CME will slam into the Earth's magnetosphere and interact with it causing what we call space weather. Depending on how large a storm is it could cause satellite interruptions, power black outs and auroras...

You can also learn more about MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) by going to our web site: http://space.rice.edu/MMS/ It will be four spacecraft flying in formation, so that you can determine changes that are caused by moving through a structure versus changes that are caused by the entire structure changing...

Wow, in 10 years I'll be 68 years old. By that age many people retire from work, but space science is so much fun that many of us work long into our 70's or even 80's. Dr. Bill Gordon, who invented the Arecibo Telescope, is 90 years old! I am working on the planning of a spacecraft call the...