US EditionHelp NASA Prepare for the Next Solar Storm Disaster
The Space Umbrella citizen-science project invites the public to analyze NASA MMS data to identify key solar wind and magnetosphere interactions that affect Earth’s space environment.
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Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster
NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your help protecting Earth against waves of punishing, disruptive solar winds. The website may look like it’s from the internet circa 2002, but NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission isn’t that old. That said, the project is approaching 16 years of groundbreaking continuous research. MMS provides astronomers with vital …
Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project - NASA Science
2 min read Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella project needs your help investigating this dynamic region, where NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission has been collecting data since 2015. The MMS mission investigates …
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