Sun-Earth Days 2014

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Goddard Space Flight Center

Sun-Earth Days 2014

2015: International Year of Light

  • January 14, 2015: 10th anniversary of (Huygens) landing on Titan
  • March 5, 2015: Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around Ceres
  • March 12, 2015: Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) Launch and Live Webcast: Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • March 20, 2015: Total Solar Eclipse - Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Northwestern Asia
  • March 2015: MESSENGER spacecraft will impact the surface of Mercury
  • April 2015: Global Astronomy Month
  • April 4, 2015: Total Lunar Eclipse - shortest total lunar eclipse of the century
  • April 12, 2015: Global Astronomy Month SunDay
  • April 13-17, 2015: Space Weather Workshop
  • April 25, 2015: International Astronomy Day
  • (May or June, 2015) Space Weather Enterprise Forum
  • July 1, 2015: Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
  • July 14, 2015: New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto
  • Jul 28 - Aug 4, 2015 Heliophysics Summer School
  • Sept 13, 2015 Partial Solar Eclipse
  • September 19, 2015 International Observe the Moon Night
  • Sept 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse (Harvest moon lunar eclipse)
  • Nov. 23-27, 2015: European Space Weather Week

NASA Fact

The most powerful solar flare in the last 500 years occurred on September 2, 1859 and was sighted by two astronomers who happened to be looking at the sun at exactly the right time!