To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies and break our interdisciplinary boundaries.
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To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies and break our interdisciplinary boundaries.
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Probe will go where no spacecraft has gone and measure a process never directly observed before.
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Professor Justin Kasper addresses Senate committee on solar threat to power grid.
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With old IMAX projector bulbs, Michigan Engineers simulate the sun.
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Around 8 pm on Jan. 16, people across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio witnessed a meteor exploding in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Professor Margaret Kivelson’s lecture titled, “Magnetic Structures in the Solar System” was followed by a conversation with daughter U-M Professor Valerie A. Kivelson.
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A space weather tool Michigan Engineers developed was used to produce animations that show predictions of how the recent storm would distort Earth’s magnetic field.
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Humans can influence space weather.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have developed a new tool to help forecast solar storms and their effects on the power grid and communication satellites.
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The power goes out. The aurorae stretch to the tropics. Could a major solar storm mean a year without electricity?
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