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NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun's Influence Across Space
Watts Up With That ^ | 25 September 2025 | Anthony Watts

Posted on 09/27/2025 1:24:06 PM PDT by zeestephen

The IMAP mission will chart the boundary of the heliosphere, a bubble inflated by the solar wind that shields our solar system from galactic cosmic rays...NOAA's SWFO-L1 is designed to be a full-time operational space weather observatory...The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission dedicated to recording changes in the outermost layer of our atmosphere, the exosphere...

(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: anthonywatts; astronomy; falcon9; imap; nasa; noaa; science; spacex; swfol1

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1 posted on 09/27/2025 1:24:06 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

OK, and if it turns out its a BAD influence?...


2 posted on 09/27/2025 1:26:50 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: zeestephen

Is there any possibility that the Sun might influence our climate on Earth?


3 posted on 09/27/2025 1:27:20 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: zeestephen

I wonder if they will discover the sun has something to do with “global warming?”


4 posted on 09/27/2025 1:29:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: zeestephen

Influence? Laughable. Go to the outer edges of the Oort cloud. There one MIGHT find the limits of Sol’s influence.


5 posted on 09/27/2025 1:29:30 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hahahahaha! I can see everyone can see how this could go sideways for the Left!

Of course, in reality, it won’t slow them down in the least.

They will just massage their data to fit their narrative, the same way they did with their weather model in East Anglia back in the Nineties.

And continue on with their incessant Leftist screeching.


6 posted on 09/27/2025 1:34:09 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: GMMC0987; Red Badger; null and void
(OK, and if it turns out its a BAD influence?...)

Well then, we blow up the Sun πŸŒ„πŸŒž and ALL of our problems will be solved

DUH!!! πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰

Oh and we ALSO will shut down the Sun's YouTube and TikTok channels so it can't be a bad influencer anymore


7 posted on 09/27/2025 1:36:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: zeestephen

So now even the sun is an β€œinfluencer.” How many followers does it have?


8 posted on 09/27/2025 1:41:05 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: zeestephen

Landing at night?


9 posted on 09/27/2025 1:54:13 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: zeestephen

Watched spacex launch this trio live the other day. Always cool to see boosters landing on those tiny looking drone ships.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1970815619621654900

This was SpaceX 13th mission for NASA’s science program

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1970820057103253575

The first payload deployed was spin yeet’d sorry flat earthers.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1970834897058099455


10 posted on 09/27/2025 2:54:03 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: zeestephen

I think the amount of radiation is proportional to the 4th power of the temperature in degrees Kelvin.

That energy is spread out over a surface area of 4*pi*r^2 where r is the distance to the sun.


11 posted on 09/27/2025 4:27:19 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nah. Don’t listen to THOSE crazy people.


12 posted on 09/27/2025 8:05:12 PM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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