Sentences with phrase «major space weather»

Another major space weather event resulted in an increase in background radiation that made it difficult for the Analyser of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms 3 (ASPERA - 3) instrument on - board Mars Express (MEX) to evaluate ion escape fluxes at Mars (Futaana et al. 2008).

Not exact matches

«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Guhathakurta is lead scientist for this particular eclipse at NASA, and she is a major figure in the modern effort to link the sun, its corona, space weather and Earth.

Since among the main goals of this mission are the characterization of atmospheric loss processes (with special attention to water) and the identification of their relation to the solar wind (Bougher et al. 2014), major scientific return related to space weather is expected in the next years.

The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.

Translucent polycarbonate sheets enclose the major living spaces resulting in an abundance of natural light and an interior wall that changes with the weather.

It will approach within 4 million miles of the sun, facing heat and radiation, to provide new data on solar activity, which could make crucial contributions to mankind's ability to forecast major space - weather events that can affect life on Earth.

Given the large number of varying factors involved in controlling the path of «weather» (in n - dimensional phenomenistic space), it seems very likely that even major effects shouldn't be expected to repeat themselves.

«We haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower, as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

- The entire state economy might convulse as it did during the automaker exit and Great Recession -(but Michigan is still in early recovery from its major declines so it has very little space to fall further and Haslett weathered that storm quite well - using Zillow Home Price as a measure)