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Solar Probes Dispatched to Moon

Posted July 27, 2010 8:59 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

A pair of NASA science satellites that have been studying how solar geomagnetic storms impact Earth are being dispatched to the moon for a new mission. The probes are part of a constellation of five satellites collectively known as THEMIS, an acronym for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, which was launched in February 2007.

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07/28/2010 3:07 AM

So they are nothing to do with harvesting He3?

"Pull the other one: it's got bells on."

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