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Tipoffs for Boulder, Colorado (Federal Agencies) Newsletter for Wednesday February 26, 2025 ( 2 items )  

NASA's EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth's Aurora
PASADENA, California, Feb. 25 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA's EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth's Aurora High above Earth's poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second. They can create some of the largest magnetic disturbances on the ground, and ra  more

NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid. NASA's Lucy spacecraft's first views o  more