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July 10, 2014

Messenger and Stereo Open New Window Into Solar Processes
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2014
Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. How do you figure out what powers solar flares - the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots - when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near-Earth's orbit? One answer: you get closer. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft - which orbits Mercury, and so is as close as 28 million miles from the sun versus Earth's 93 million miles - is near enough to the sun to detect ... read more

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