UI professor led mission to study sun’s impact on Earth’s magnetic field with satellite launching later this month. - The Daily Iowan

UI professor led mission to study sun’s impact on Earth’s magnetic field with satellite launching later this month. - The Daily Iowan

A study led by University of Iowa Associate Professor David Miles will study how the sun impacts the Earth’s magnetic field using a NASA satellite that will launch later this month. The study dubbed TRACERS, or Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, will gather data about how the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic field interact to help understand long-standing questions about space weather. Scientists hope to use the …