Sentences with phrase «major space weather events»
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).
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«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.
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.
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.
«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.