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Studying Earth’s defenses against solar storms
  1. Studying Earth’s defenses against solar storms

    NASA undertakes a comprehensive look at a critical atmospheric buffer between us and the sun, powered in part by University of Michigan researchers and alumni.

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  2. Parker Solar Probe data bolsters theories in long-running solar riddle

    University of Michigan researchers were able to accurately predict when and where the probe would cross an important barrier in the sun’s atmosphere.

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  3. Hurricane-tracking CYGNSS satellite system gets NASA renewal as it expands its reach

    Ocean wind tracker is finding new uses for inland studies.

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  4. More than $5M to improve solar storm forecasts

    U-Michigan researchers play lead roles in national effort funded by NSF, NASA.

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  5. Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory

    Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”

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  6. Lockdown for space agencies put research projects in limbo

    University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.

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  7. ‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings

    NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.

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  8. Launching Solar Orbiter

    For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. Join them on launch night.

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  9. Solar Orbiter mission to track the sun’s active regions, improve space weather prediction

    Latest ESA launch will be the first mission to get hi-res images of the sun’s poles

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  10. Parker Solar Probe: ‘We’re missing something fundamental about the sun’

    First data holds clues to a decades-old mystery, and major implications for space weather prediction

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