Satellite News » Missions http://satelit.web.id Just another satellite weblog Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:59:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cluster Spacecraft Catch a Magnetic Reconnection http://satelit.web.id/2006/07/19/cluster-spacecraft-catch-a-magnetic-reconnection.html http://satelit.web.id/2006/07/19/cluster-spacecraft-catch-a-magnetic-reconnection.html#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:16:53 +0000 admin http://satelit.web.id/?p=145 Artist illustration of Cluster spacecraft. Image credit: ESAClick to enlarge
ESA’s Cluster spacecraft were in the right place at the right time on September 15, 2001. They flew through a region of the Earth’s magnetosphere at the exact moment that it reconfigured itself. The wealth of data will help scientists better model interactions between the Earth’s magnetosphere and the solar wind, as well as the magnetic fields around other stars and exotic objects with powerful magnetic fields.

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