Couldn’t agree more. The book by Melanie Windridge is superb - if you want to know what the northern lights are, her book tells you and is a lyrical journey into their appeal and mystery

Cold atom interferometer accelerometers hold a lot of promise for gravity missions, like the future successors of GOCE and GRACE. Their data would then also be applicable for research of space weather variability in the thermosphere.

The newest version V3.14.0 of the VirES for Swarm service has just been released! Including: 🐝 Swarm L2 FAST FAC products 🏆 CHAMP magnetic products 🌬️ TOLEOS CHAMP, GRACE, and GRACE-FO thermospheric density and cross-wind products & more! 👉earth.esa.int/eogateway/news…

The key question is if such sub-11-year variability can be predicted. It would be very useful for operations and planning of (V)LEO satellite missions. Can that be done by leveraging current solar data and modelling? Can we propose future observations that would allow it?

Always wondered which famous figures from the past were alive at the same time? Then, like me, spend some time on this very nice interactive website.

Remember back in early April, when the Earth-facing side of the Sun looked almost completely free of sunspots. See how things have changed since then... This data is from NASA Sun & Space SDO/HMI, Observatory.be SILSO sunspot number and Natural Resources Penticton F10.7 solar radio flux.

New AurorEye movie in the viewer. This was made about 85 km from the Brandon magnetometer station. To watch how the local geomagnetic perturbations match with auroral activity, it helps to lower the magnetometer Y-axis min/max, as in the screenshot. spaceweather.knmi.nl/viewer/?layout…