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Grand Challenge-Cusp Graphics

Graphic
North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, a magnetic bubble, known as the cusp, surrounds Earth and dips inward, allowing space particles to funnel in toward the planet.
Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen
Animation
The trajectories of several of the Grand Challenge missions.
Credit: Andøya Space Center/Trond Abrahamsen

Graphic
An overview of the missions involved in the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp.
Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith

Booklet
An overview of the Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp. A PDF is available below.
Credit: Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Graphic designer
- Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith (TRAX International)
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Support
- Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase)
- Joy Ng (USRA)
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Animator
- Trond Abrahamsen (Andøya Space Center)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, September 24, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.