News from 1998
DECEMBER
December 21, 1998: Copper and zinc isotopes resolved in CRIS -- ACE News
December 21, 1998: Solstice Sun in soft X-rays -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 18, 1998: NASA's Top 10 -- NASA MSFC
December 8, 1998: Solar wind squeezes some of Earth's atmosphere into space -- NASA GSFC
December 8, 1998: Solar wind blows some of Earth's atmosphere into space -- NASA MSFC
December 8, 1998: Complex 'space weather' surrounds Earth -- SF Gate
December 7, 1998: Earth's own magnetosphere, not solar wind, accelerates the particles of the radiation belts -- NASA GSFC
December 6, 1998: When the Sun "sneezes", ACE takes its temperature -- NASA GSFC
November 25, 1998: A Leonid bolide over Kansas -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 24, 1998: Seven Leonids over Wise Observatory -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 23, 1998: A Leonid meteor explodes -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 23, 1998: Leonids Sample Return payload has been found -- NASA MSFC
November 22, 1998: The poetry of science -- SF Gate
November 22, 1998: The high energy Crab nebula -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 20, 1998: The science of science fiction (RealAudio) -- Science Friday
November 20, 1998: Green fireball -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 19, 1998: Bright Leonids -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 19, 1998: Early birds catch the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 19, 1998: Earth to Voyager 2 -- Science Daily
November 17, 1998: NASA and Vanderbilt University announce scholarship program -- NASA
November 17, 1998: Brigham Young students and NASA engineers work together to test student-developed telescope -- Science Daily
November 17, 1998: Up, up, and away to the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 16, 1998: NASA spacecraft take cover from the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 16, 1998: The Leonid sample return mission -- NASA MSFC
November 15, 1998: Meteor shower promises dramatic celestial show -- CNN
November 12, 1998: Astrophysicists use virtual reality to chase Earth's tail -- University of Warwick
November 12, 1998: NASA looks to future science exploration using ultra-long duration balloon -- NASA GSFC
November 11, 1998: Interplanetary propagation of ions from impulsive solar flares -- ACE News
November 9, 1998: Goddard spacecraft prepared for encounter with Leonid meteor storm -- NASA GSFC
November 9, 1998: WR124: stellar fireball (read about Wolf-Rayet stars) -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 9, 1998: New method of dating past earthquakes, assessing future ones discovered -- ScienceDaily
November 6, 1998: The hitchhiker in Discovery's baggage compartment -- USC experiment studies ultraviolet solar radiation -- ScienceDaily
November 5, 1998: A tale of two mysteries -- NASA MSFC
November 4, 1998: Ultra-long duration balloon technology workshop scheduled for next week at Goddard -- NASA GSFC
November 2, 1998: A prolonged enhancement of He+ in a CME: ACE/SWEPAM observations -- ACE News
November 2, 1998: From pacemakers to braces, the medical benefits of space exploration -- CNN
October 28, 1998: All the world's a stage, and the ions merely players... -- NASA MSFC
October 27, 1998: Seeing the invisible -- NASA MSFC
October 23, 1998: Ancient cosmic rays captured by powerful magnet on the edge of space -- NASA Goddard News
October 22, 1998: Scientists to explore what they know about space weather -- NASA MSFC
October 22, 1998: IMP-8 spacecraft celebrates 25 years on duty -- NASA GSFC
October 21, 1998: The case of the missing aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 19, 1998: If we cannot see electrons and protons -- or smaller particles such as quarks -- how can we be sure they exist? -- Ask the Experts (Scientific American)
October 19, 1998: Sunspot cycle closely following prediction -- NASA MSFC
October 15, 1998: A great day for SOHO -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 14, 1998: Fewer teen girls enrolling in technology classes -- SF Gate
October 14, 1998: "Sunquake" telescope appears to be OK -- NASA MSFC
October 10 - 11, 1998: Public invited to explore NASA Lewis Research Center
October 9, 1998: Ionic charge states in 3He-rich solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
October 9, 1998: SOHO opens its eyes -- NASA MSFC
October 9, 1998: NASA celebrates its 40th anniversary through art -- NASA
October 6, 1998: 'Help Wanted' at schools - severe shortage of trained math and science teachers strains state educational resources -- SF Gate
October 6, 1998: Workshop will take teachers and students to edge of universe and back -- NASA MSFC
October 5, 1998: Historic John Glenn flight to feature Maryland and Goddard science experiments -- NASA GSFC
October 5, 1998: Is it true that the strength of the Earth's magnetic field is decreasing? What's the effect? -- Scientific American
October 5, 1998: Staring directly at the Sun: That's where the science is -- NASA MSFC
October 5, 1998: A sunspot up close -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 1, 1998: NASA marks 40 years on the final frontier -- NASA
September 28, 1998: German Equator-S spacecraft status -- MPI
September 28, 1998: How are elements broken down into protons, electrons, and neutrons?" -- Scientific American
September 27, 1998: Albert Einstein describes space and time -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 23, 1998: Autumn and the active Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 17, 1998: 2001 space mission: Into the heart of the Van Allen belts -- ScienceDaily
September 14, 1998: Magnetism to save buildings in earthquakes -- Discovery Channel
September 11, 1998: NASA selects first University-class Explorers -- NASA
September 9, 1998: Simultaneous observations of upstream events at ACE and WIND -- ACE News
September 9, 1998: Why did the supernova "morph"? -- NASA MSFC
August 28, 1998: Researchers warn end-of-year storm threat to satellites - Discovery Channel
August 21, 1998: Live eclipse webcast - NASA MSFC
August 20, 1998: Goddard hosts "Kids in Science and Technology" (KIST) collaborative forum -- NASA GSFC
August 19, 1998: Dissipation of magnetic turbulence in the interplanetary medium -- ACE News
August 17, 1998: Scientists find clues to force that keeps universe together - San Francisco Chronical
August 17, 1998: Web site commemorates NASA's 40 years - Today@NASA
August 11, 1998: New information from SOHO increases chances for recovery - NASA GSFC
August 6, 1998: Solar wind isotopes in the May 3, 1998 CME: SWIMS data -- ACE News
August 6, 1998: NASA Wallops Flight Facility to launch student balloons - NASA
August 4, 1998: ISOMAX (Isotope Magnet Experiment) cosmic ray balloon experiment was launched!
July 20, 1998: Digging in and taking cover - NASA MSFC
July 16, 1998: Effort to recover SOHO spacecraft continue as investigation board focuses on most likely causes - ESA
July 15, 1998: SOHO Mission Interruption Preliminary Status and Background Report - SOHO
July 7, 1998: Space lecturer to tell how to fly to another planet - NASA JPL
July 2, 1998: CRIS data indicate a long delay between nucleosynthesis and cosmic ray acceleration -- ACE News
June 22, 1998: Getting a solid view of the Sun's corona - NASA MSFC
June 16, 1998: An active region of the Sun - NASA GSFC APOD
June 15, 1998: Robot competition on Capitol Hill to demonstrate student enthusiasm for science and math - NASA LeRC
June 15, 1998: High time resolution measurements of a CME: SWICS/ACE observations -- ACE News
June 11, 1998: New cosmic ray theory sheds light on galactic evolution mystery - NASA GSFC
June 11, 1998: SOHO's twin sungrazers - NASA GSFC APOD
June 10, 1998: NASA satellite captures video of bright, fast solar explosion - with a RealVideo of an intense solar explosion captured by the TRACE satellite
June 8, 1998: High resolution images from TRACE spacecraft capture an extremely rapid high-temperature solar explosion - NASA GSFC
June 4, 1998: SOHO spacecraft sees two comets plunge into Sun - movies of the events - ESA and NASA GSFC
June 3, 1998: Twin comets race to death by fire - NASA GSFC
May 29, 1998: High resolution images from TRACE spacecraft capture magnetic energy burst on Sun - NASA GSFC
May 28, 1998: Odd auroral arc crosses rather than circling the North Pole - Science@NASA
May 28, 1998: Giant convective cells found on sun after 30-year search - Science@NASA
May 28, 1998: Solar "CAT scan" provides most detailed look to date at corona - NASA GSFC
May 26, 1998: ACE first science puzzles solar researchers - NASA GSFC
May 20, 1990: "Magnetar" discovery solves 19-year-old mystery - Science@NASA
May 8, 1998: Correlated heavy ion intensity variations contained within a CME: ACE SWEPAM-i data -- ACE News
May 6, 1998: Most powerful explosion since the Big Bang challenges gamma ray burst theories - NASA
April 30, 1998: Student winners to be honored in Washington, D.C. - NASA
April 30, 1998: NASA launching high school experiments - NASA GSFC
April 28, 1998: JPL's open house features past, present and future in space - NASA JPL
April 26 through May 2, 1998: National Science and Technology Week - National Science Foundation
April 17, 1998: Ulysses completes first full orbit around the Sun - NASA JPL
April 15, 1998: Evidence for the rare isotopes 22Ne and 18O in anomalous cosmic rays -- ACE News
April 13, 1998: New sunspot cycle to be bigger than average - NASA MSFC
April 6, 1998: Dust to dust: New lab studies death of stars, origin of planets - NASA MSFC
April 2, 1998: An upstream magnetospheric event observed by EPAM -- ACE News
April 1, 1998: TRACE solar spacecraft successfully launched -- NASA KSC
March 19, 1998: Two studies will refine and expand solar monitoring task -- NASA
March 13, 1998: Observations of a "magnetic cloud" by the MAG and SWEPAM sensors aboard ACE -- ACE News
February 26, 1998: Live@The Exploratorium: Solar Eclipse. Exploratorium staff scientists provided live coverage of the total solar eclipse, along with interviews of NASA scientists.
February 25, 1998: SNOE launched. SNOE, the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer, investigates the effects of energy from the Sun and from the magnetosphere on the density of nitric oxide in Earth's upper atmosphere
February 23, 1998: SOHO spacecraft to assist eclipse observers - NASA GSFC
February 18, 1998: NASA outlines plans to study Feb. 26 total eclipse - NASA
February 13, 1998: Radioactive clock isotopes observed with CRIS -- ACE News
February 13, 1998: Voyager 1 now most distant human-made object in space -- NASA JPL
February 12, 1998: NASA studying space weather from Puerto Rico - NASA
February 10, 1998: Shock wave sheds new light on fading supernova -- STScI
February 3, 1998: ACE satellite now in place between Earth and Sun; will seek to determine what Sun is made of - Caltech
January 26, 1998: Inauguration of the ACE Real-Time Solar Wind system -- ACE News
December 21, 1998: Solstice Sun in soft X-rays -- NASA GSFC APOD
December 18, 1998: NASA's Top 10 -- NASA MSFC
December 8, 1998: Solar wind squeezes some of Earth's atmosphere into space -- NASA GSFC
December 8, 1998: Solar wind blows some of Earth's atmosphere into space -- NASA MSFC
December 8, 1998: Complex 'space weather' surrounds Earth -- SF Gate
December 7, 1998: Earth's own magnetosphere, not solar wind, accelerates the particles of the radiation belts -- NASA GSFC
December 6, 1998: When the Sun "sneezes", ACE takes its temperature -- NASA GSFC
NOVEMBER
November 30, 1998: How much do field lines mix in the solar wind? -- ACE NewsNovember 25, 1998: A Leonid bolide over Kansas -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 24, 1998: Seven Leonids over Wise Observatory -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 23, 1998: A Leonid meteor explodes -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 23, 1998: Leonids Sample Return payload has been found -- NASA MSFC
November 22, 1998: The poetry of science -- SF Gate
November 22, 1998: The high energy Crab nebula -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 20, 1998: The science of science fiction (RealAudio) -- Science Friday
November 20, 1998: Green fireball -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 19, 1998: Bright Leonids -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 19, 1998: Early birds catch the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 19, 1998: Earth to Voyager 2 -- Science Daily
November 17, 1998: NASA and Vanderbilt University announce scholarship program -- NASA
November 17, 1998: Brigham Young students and NASA engineers work together to test student-developed telescope -- Science Daily
November 17, 1998: Up, up, and away to the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 16, 1998: NASA spacecraft take cover from the Leonids -- NASA MSFC
November 16, 1998: The Leonid sample return mission -- NASA MSFC
November 15, 1998: Meteor shower promises dramatic celestial show -- CNN
November 12, 1998: Astrophysicists use virtual reality to chase Earth's tail -- University of Warwick
November 12, 1998: NASA looks to future science exploration using ultra-long duration balloon -- NASA GSFC
November 11, 1998: Interplanetary propagation of ions from impulsive solar flares -- ACE News
November 9, 1998: Goddard spacecraft prepared for encounter with Leonid meteor storm -- NASA GSFC
November 9, 1998: WR124: stellar fireball (read about Wolf-Rayet stars) -- NASA GSFC APOD
November 9, 1998: New method of dating past earthquakes, assessing future ones discovered -- ScienceDaily
November 6, 1998: The hitchhiker in Discovery's baggage compartment -- USC experiment studies ultraviolet solar radiation -- ScienceDaily
November 5, 1998: A tale of two mysteries -- NASA MSFC
November 4, 1998: Ultra-long duration balloon technology workshop scheduled for next week at Goddard -- NASA GSFC
November 2, 1998: A prolonged enhancement of He+ in a CME: ACE/SWEPAM observations -- ACE News
November 2, 1998: From pacemakers to braces, the medical benefits of space exploration -- CNN
OCTOBER
October 29, 1998: The weatherman in space -- NASA MSFCOctober 28, 1998: All the world's a stage, and the ions merely players... -- NASA MSFC
October 27, 1998: Seeing the invisible -- NASA MSFC
October 23, 1998: Ancient cosmic rays captured by powerful magnet on the edge of space -- NASA Goddard News
October 22, 1998: Scientists to explore what they know about space weather -- NASA MSFC
October 22, 1998: IMP-8 spacecraft celebrates 25 years on duty -- NASA GSFC
October 21, 1998: The case of the missing aurora -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 19, 1998: If we cannot see electrons and protons -- or smaller particles such as quarks -- how can we be sure they exist? -- Ask the Experts (Scientific American)
October 19, 1998: Sunspot cycle closely following prediction -- NASA MSFC
October 15, 1998: A great day for SOHO -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 14, 1998: Fewer teen girls enrolling in technology classes -- SF Gate
October 14, 1998: "Sunquake" telescope appears to be OK -- NASA MSFC
October 10 - 11, 1998: Public invited to explore NASA Lewis Research Center
October 9, 1998: Ionic charge states in 3He-rich solar energetic particle events -- ACE News
October 9, 1998: SOHO opens its eyes -- NASA MSFC
October 9, 1998: NASA celebrates its 40th anniversary through art -- NASA
October 6, 1998: 'Help Wanted' at schools - severe shortage of trained math and science teachers strains state educational resources -- SF Gate
October 6, 1998: Workshop will take teachers and students to edge of universe and back -- NASA MSFC
October 5, 1998: Historic John Glenn flight to feature Maryland and Goddard science experiments -- NASA GSFC
October 5, 1998: Is it true that the strength of the Earth's magnetic field is decreasing? What's the effect? -- Scientific American
October 5, 1998: Staring directly at the Sun: That's where the science is -- NASA MSFC
October 5, 1998: A sunspot up close -- NASA GSFC APOD
October 1, 1998: NASA marks 40 years on the final frontier -- NASA
SEPTEMBER
September 30, 1998: Variations in the 22Ne/20N3 ratio in solar energetic particles -- ACE NewsSeptember 28, 1998: German Equator-S spacecraft status -- MPI
September 28, 1998: How are elements broken down into protons, electrons, and neutrons?" -- Scientific American
September 27, 1998: Albert Einstein describes space and time -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 23, 1998: Autumn and the active Sun -- NASA GSFC APOD
September 17, 1998: 2001 space mission: Into the heart of the Van Allen belts -- ScienceDaily
September 14, 1998: Magnetism to save buildings in earthquakes -- Discovery Channel
September 11, 1998: NASA selects first University-class Explorers -- NASA
September 9, 1998: Simultaneous observations of upstream events at ACE and WIND -- ACE News
September 9, 1998: Why did the supernova "morph"? -- NASA MSFC
AUGUST
August 28, 1998: Hydrogen Trifid - NASA GSFC APODAugust 28, 1998: Researchers warn end-of-year storm threat to satellites - Discovery Channel
August 21, 1998: Live eclipse webcast - NASA MSFC
August 20, 1998: Goddard hosts "Kids in Science and Technology" (KIST) collaborative forum -- NASA GSFC
August 19, 1998: Dissipation of magnetic turbulence in the interplanetary medium -- ACE News
August 17, 1998: Scientists find clues to force that keeps universe together - San Francisco Chronical
August 17, 1998: Web site commemorates NASA's 40 years - Today@NASA
August 11, 1998: New information from SOHO increases chances for recovery - NASA GSFC
August 6, 1998: Solar wind isotopes in the May 3, 1998 CME: SWIMS data -- ACE News
August 6, 1998: NASA Wallops Flight Facility to launch student balloons - NASA
August 4, 1998: ISOMAX (Isotope Magnet Experiment) cosmic ray balloon experiment was launched!
JULY
July 24, 1998: NOAA implements first derived product based on real time solar wind data: a predicted Kp for use in space weather forecasting -- ACE NewsJuly 20, 1998: Digging in and taking cover - NASA MSFC
July 16, 1998: Effort to recover SOHO spacecraft continue as investigation board focuses on most likely causes - ESA
July 15, 1998: SOHO Mission Interruption Preliminary Status and Background Report - SOHO
July 7, 1998: Space lecturer to tell how to fly to another planet - NASA JPL
July 2, 1998: CRIS data indicate a long delay between nucleosynthesis and cosmic ray acceleration -- ACE News
JUNE
June 29, 1998: Solar magnetic bananas - NASA GSFC APODJune 22, 1998: Getting a solid view of the Sun's corona - NASA MSFC
June 16, 1998: An active region of the Sun - NASA GSFC APOD
June 15, 1998: Robot competition on Capitol Hill to demonstrate student enthusiasm for science and math - NASA LeRC
June 15, 1998: High time resolution measurements of a CME: SWICS/ACE observations -- ACE News
June 11, 1998: New cosmic ray theory sheds light on galactic evolution mystery - NASA GSFC
June 11, 1998: SOHO's twin sungrazers - NASA GSFC APOD
June 10, 1998: NASA satellite captures video of bright, fast solar explosion - with a RealVideo of an intense solar explosion captured by the TRACE satellite
June 8, 1998: High resolution images from TRACE spacecraft capture an extremely rapid high-temperature solar explosion - NASA GSFC
June 4, 1998: SOHO spacecraft sees two comets plunge into Sun - movies of the events - ESA and NASA GSFC
June 3, 1998: Twin comets race to death by fire - NASA GSFC
MAY
May 29, 1998: Tiniest of space bodies to get close examination - Science@NASAMay 29, 1998: High resolution images from TRACE spacecraft capture magnetic energy burst on Sun - NASA GSFC
May 28, 1998: Odd auroral arc crosses rather than circling the North Pole - Science@NASA
May 28, 1998: Giant convective cells found on sun after 30-year search - Science@NASA
May 28, 1998: Solar "CAT scan" provides most detailed look to date at corona - NASA GSFC
May 26, 1998: ACE first science puzzles solar researchers - NASA GSFC
May 20, 1990: "Magnetar" discovery solves 19-year-old mystery - Science@NASA
May 8, 1998: Correlated heavy ion intensity variations contained within a CME: ACE SWEPAM-i data -- ACE News
May 6, 1998: Most powerful explosion since the Big Bang challenges gamma ray burst theories - NASA
APRIL
April 30, 1998: Indication of charge state variation during the November 1997 solar particle events -- ACE NewsApril 30, 1998: Student winners to be honored in Washington, D.C. - NASA
April 30, 1998: NASA launching high school experiments - NASA GSFC
April 28, 1998: JPL's open house features past, present and future in space - NASA JPL
April 26 through May 2, 1998: National Science and Technology Week - National Science Foundation
April 17, 1998: Ulysses completes first full orbit around the Sun - NASA JPL
April 15, 1998: Evidence for the rare isotopes 22Ne and 18O in anomalous cosmic rays -- ACE News
April 13, 1998: New sunspot cycle to be bigger than average - NASA MSFC
April 6, 1998: Dust to dust: New lab studies death of stars, origin of planets - NASA MSFC
April 2, 1998: An upstream magnetospheric event observed by EPAM -- ACE News
April 1, 1998: TRACE solar spacecraft successfully launched -- NASA KSC
MARCH
March 27, 1998: Earth dragging space and time as it rotates - NASA GSFCMarch 19, 1998: Two studies will refine and expand solar monitoring task -- NASA
March 13, 1998: Observations of a "magnetic cloud" by the MAG and SWEPAM sensors aboard ACE -- ACE News
FEBRUARY
February 27, 1998: First measurements of the solar wind composition with the high resolution mass spectrometer (SWIMS) -- ACE NewsFebruary 26, 1998: Live@The Exploratorium: Solar Eclipse. Exploratorium staff scientists provided live coverage of the total solar eclipse, along with interviews of NASA scientists.
February 25, 1998: SNOE launched. SNOE, the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer, investigates the effects of energy from the Sun and from the magnetosphere on the density of nitric oxide in Earth's upper atmosphere
February 23, 1998: SOHO spacecraft to assist eclipse observers - NASA GSFC
February 18, 1998: NASA outlines plans to study Feb. 26 total eclipse - NASA
February 13, 1998: Radioactive clock isotopes observed with CRIS -- ACE News
February 13, 1998: Voyager 1 now most distant human-made object in space -- NASA JPL
February 12, 1998: NASA studying space weather from Puerto Rico - NASA
February 10, 1998: Shock wave sheds new light on fading supernova -- STScI
February 3, 1998: ACE satellite now in place between Earth and Sun; will seek to determine what Sun is made of - Caltech
JANUARY
January 28, 1998: Space pioneers recall first U.S. satellite launch upon 40th anniversary - NASA JPLJanuary 26, 1998: Inauguration of the ACE Real-Time Solar Wind system -- ACE News
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