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Space Weather News for March 4, 2017
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"AURORA SPRITES" SIGHTED OVER NEW ZEALAND:  For the past few days, Earth has
been moving through a stream of solar wind gusting with speeds of 700+ kLast
night in New Zealand, the stream produced an unusual display of "aurora
sprites" above the Otago Peninsula.  Visit Spaceweather.com to see the
apparition and to learn what probably caused it.
 
ARCTIC SPACE WEATHER BALLOON LAUNCH: This coming week, Spaceweather.com will be
flying to Sweden with a group of student researchers to launch a series of
space weather balloons inside the Arctic Circle.  Near-simultaneous launches in
the USA and Chile will allow us to probe the global response of our planet to
rising levels of cosmic radiation in the inner solar system. Today's edition of
Spaceweather.com highlights the science of this mission--and whets our appetite
for some very unusual photos of the Northern Lights.
 
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Above: The space weather balloon experiment of March 9-16, 2017, will span
three continents, more than 14,000 km of linear distance, and 90+ degrees of
magnetic latitude.
 
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Regards,
 
Roger

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