NSF awards grant to track 'space weather' in Earth's near-space environment
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 11:14
in Astronomy & Space
Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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