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This section features educational videos and classroom activities that have a distinct connection to Canada's northern sky.
THEMIS DISCOVERS BIGGEST BREACH OF EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE
This mission is producing some spectacular science that is helping us better understand the nature of space weather.
DURATION: 2:20
SOURCE: NASA
WEBSITE: YouTube
POSTED: January 1, 2009
About THEMIS
The THEMIS mission, which stands for Time
History and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms,
is the biggest aurora-watching experiment of its kind
and the first to involve so many northern
communities in Canada and the United States.
Five high-flying NASA satellites, along with 20 all-sky
cameras at ground
stations across the North (including four cameras
in the Northwest Territories), are now
collecting valuable data for NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, University of Calgary and University of Berkeley California as part of an experiment
that is arguably as impressive as the aurora
itself.
Classroom Activities
Understanding the physics behind the THEMIS science requires some understanding of magnetic fields, charged particles, forces, motions, and energy. NASA and its partners have created three teacher's guides, "Magnetism and Electromagnetism ," "Exploring Magnetism on Earth," and "Space Weather" with many lessons on Earth's magnetic field to develope a student's background understanding of THEMIS ground-based magnetometer data.
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