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lasco


– The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment aboard the Solar and Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. See http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/
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angstrom


A unit of length = 1.0E-08cm.
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astronomical unit


The mean Sun-Earth distance, a unit of measure widely used in expressing distances in the solar system. 1 AU = 149,600,000 km = 92,957,000 miles.
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auroral oval


the region in which aurora appears at the same time, corresponding to a "ring of fire" around the magnetic pole, often observed by satellites. It resembles a circle centered a few hundred ki [..]
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auroral zone


the region on Earth where auroras are common, essentially a smeared-out average (over time and distance from the magnetic pole) of the auroral oval. Typical magnetic latitude is 63-65 degrees.
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a


tmospheric W
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e


lectromagnetic S
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o


bservation M
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e


ducation instruments which monitor changes in the Earth’s ionosphere by tracking VLF signals as they bounce through the Earth’s waveguide. Developed by the Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience [..]
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(radio)


A transient enhancement of the solar radio emission
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