Four spacecraft: INTERBALL Tail probe (IB_TAIL), MAGION 5 (IB_MAG5), POLAR(NASA/ISAS), GEOTAIL (NASA) are considered. Click icons to make large pictures. ... FSP criteria | FSP ASCII file | Four spacecraft . in the FSP situations . ASCII file . ... Magnetic conjugations . ASCII files : . ... The mulisatellites conjugations : . ... The FSP polar diagram . Click hear for more detailed information about each of four orbits. ... IKI RAN | SSC IKI RAN | ...
The Sun is our nearest star and the source of energy for life on Earth. ... For centuries astronomers wondered whether they were clouds floating in the Sun's atmosphere, but we now know that they really are huge regions of magnetic field, about as intense as the field at the poles of an iron magnet. ... Such abrupt events were named solar flares , and what made them especially interesting was that occasionally, after a prominent flare, a magnetic storm would erupt on Earth. ...
... Before Voyager . ... Moons . The Rings . ... At its closest, the spacecraft came within 81,500 kilometers (50,600 miles) of Uranus's cloud tops on January 24, 1986. Voyager 2 radioed thousands of images and voluminous amounts of other scientific data on the planet, its moons, rings, atmosphere, interior and the magnetic environment surrounding Uranus. ... All nine previously known rings of Uranus were photographed and measured, as were other new rings and ringlets in the Uranian system. ...