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- 1Smile mission releases first ultraviolet images of auroral substorm●Smile’s first ultraviolet footage shows auroral substorm This is the first footage to be released from the ultraviolet c
The European-Chinese Smile mission has released the first images from its ultraviolet camera, capturing an auroral substorm. The footage shows the full ring of northern lights around the Earth's polar region, something no spacecraft has recorded since 2008. Scientists say the observations will help study how solar wind drives sudden, dramatic brightenings of the aurora.
- 2Europe-China Smile mission declared ready to study solar wind●On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how # Earth responds to the wi
On 23 September, the joint European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to begin its work revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles streaming from the Sun. The first footage released from the mission captures the full ring of northern lights around the polar regions, offering a new view of how the magnetosphere behaves.
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The SMILE satellite has ended an 18-year gap in observations of the northern lights, and researchers say new views of Earth's x-ray magnetic shield are just weeks away. The mission is expected to provide fresh insight into how the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, producing auroras. Space science outlets are highlighting the milestone and the images anticipated in the coming weeks.
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The European Space Agency has announced that the Smile mission has officially begun its science operations. Smile, a joint solar-weather mission, is designed to study how solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field. The start of the science phase means the spacecraft has completed commissioning and is now collecting data, a milestone space agencies and researchers have been following closely.