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NASA's Polar Mission Ends with Broken Heart

After a mission of twelve years to study the Aurora Borealis phenomenon the Polar satellite has now produced its final image, "The Broken Heart", as NASA researchers named it, a visible-light photograph of the lights generated during the interactions between solar wind, Earth's magnetic field and the upper atmosphere. The Polar satellite was launched into space on February 24, 1996 and was originally scheduled for a two year mission. "We've gone well beyond our original plan into ou... Read »
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