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

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

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

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

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

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Probe will go where no spacecraft has gone and measure a process never directly observed before.

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