Europe-China SMILE Science Mission Tracks Solar Storms around Planet Earth🛰️📡For the first time, we are able to capture a global view of how the solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere. How do we track a solar storm for 40 hours? From a highly elliptical orbit above the polar region, SMILE studies where the solar wind meets Earth's magnetic field. This provides a fuller picture of the effects of space weather.Scientific questions b…
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