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News- 1996

Check it out! Space Plasma Physics made Discover magazine!
Two of our projects,
the Tethered Satellite Mission,
and the Ultraviolet Imager on POLAR,
were featured as top science stories in the Discover 1996 Top Science Stories issue!


Articles about our work that have appeared in print...
Tuesday, December 17, 1996: The San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists find key to polar light shows
Satellite reveals electrified particles spewing from Earth.


Monday, December 16, 1996: From the AP wire service
The periodic space storms that knock out satellites
and power systems may not be entirely the Sun's fault after all.


October 28, 1996: The Huntsville Times
Magnetosphere map
MSFC team studies Earth's magnetic field.


March 4, 1996: The Huntsville News
MSFC project to reap storm of information
Decade of research to aid satellite communications.


February 20, 1996: The Huntsville Times
Instrument built at MSFC to study northern lights

February 15, 1996: The Huntsville News
MSFC-managed experiments fly on POLAR mission

Articles about our work that we have prepared...
December 13, 1996: MSFC Earth-Sun Studies Featured at AGU

October 15, 1996: Fall Science Meeting Highlights Tethered Satellite Results

October 10, 1996: Earth's Plasma Plume Unveiled

August 12, 1996: Scientists"de-SCIFER" Physics of the Earth's Plasma

June 25, 1996: New Instrument Images Daytime Aurora

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