ESA/NASA Cluster and NASA's IMAGE Missions Well-Positioned (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

ESA/NASA Cluster and NASA's IMAGE Missions Well-Positioned

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The ESA/NASA Cluster and NASA's IMAGE missions were in a position around Earth on Sep. 15, 2005, to determine how solar material in the magnetic environment in near-Earth space creates a special kind of high-latitude aurora called a theta aurora.

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ESA/NASA/SOHO/LASCO/EIT

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