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MMS Achieves Major Mission Milestone

06.14.2013
The MMS team completed their first comprehensive performance test. Due to launch in late 2014, MMS will investigate how the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect.
image of the sun showing a CME

NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mars-Directed CME

06.12.2013
On June 11, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection that may travel pass Mars and may pass by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft.
UV image of the sun showing a flare

Sun Emits an M5.9 Solar Flare

06.08.2013
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare which can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing.
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A combined view of the coronal mass ejection

STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun

05/29/2013
A CME can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm.
Image of sun's quiet corona

Sun's Quiet Corona

05/31/2013
SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument shows the current conditions of the quiet corona.
SDO image of solar prominence

Graceful Eruption

05/08/2013
A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style in a little less than four hours on March 16, 2013.
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