Sentences with phrase «fast auroral»

NASA's Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) satellite, launched in 1996, now has spied the outgoing electrons that close the loop, according to results shown here yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.