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Spacecraft to Probe How Earth Fends Off Raging Solar Winds

PARIS — A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield.Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites, threaten astronauts -- and create colourful auroras in the skies of northern and southern latitudes.To find out more about this little-understood space weather, the van-sized SMILE spa…

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Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds

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European Space Agency Launches SMILE Satellite in Search of Solar Winds

In order to study the relationship between Earth and the Sun, the SMILE satellite will be launched Tuesday at 4h52 (Lisbon time) from the Kourou space center in French Guiana.

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ESA-China SMILE Mission to Study Earth's Magnetic Shield Against Solar Winds

Earth is perpetually bathed in a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind, a relentless flow of plasma emitted by the sun. While our planet is

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