Illustration of the Geotail spacecraft. Geotail was launched in July 1992 to study the tail region of Earth's magnetosphere, which is created on the nightside of Earth by the solar wind. Energy released from the tail can lead to auroras in the Earth's atmosphere. This was a joint programme with NASA, The European Space Agency and Japanâ??s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. | |
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