NASA launches mission to study space weather
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Washington: The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, which can inte...
Washington: The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday in an effort to better monitor space weather such as solar storms, which can interfere with technology and power systems on Earth.
The three probes blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, built by the private company SpaceX.
Once in space, the probes will begin a long journey to reach the Lagrange 1 point -- a spot approximately 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from the Sun that offers a stable vantage point for observation.
The "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe" (IMAP) will use its instruments to study the Sun's high-energy particles and the protective magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system known as the heliosphere, data that can offer insight into space weather and cosmic radiation.
Solar storms are high-radiation events caused by flares on the Sun's surface, and are very difficult to predict.
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