‘Smile’ spacecraft prepped for launch to study solar wind

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Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) will "study the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic environment from a unique highly elliptical orbit," according to ESA. The mission is collaboration between Europe and China. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)

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