Half of earth at the bottom, three satellites are above the earth, one in the middle, 2 to the sides. A smaller circle, the , is at the top A rocket against a dark background blasting off, creates a bright white-ish yellow flames at the bottom at the middle with orbits around it. Earth is shown as the third orbit with two smaller objects around earth.

Welcome to a public education website for some of the NASA instruments studying solar wind (stream of particles coming from the Sun).

Latest News:

November 2, 2009 The Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), on board the Japanese-UK-US Hinode satellite, is now generating unprecedented observations enabling scientists to provide a new perspective on the 50-year old question of how solar wind is driven.

September 11, 2009 UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere.

September 3, 2009 Dr. Laura Peticolas discusses her research, her inspiration and how and why scientists sonify data. Podcasted from a talk given at the Exploratorium.

September 1, 2009 Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave “surfing” conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind.