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1/3 "While one of #Geotail’s two #data #recorders failed in 2012, the second continued to work until experiencing an #anomaly on June 28, 2022. After attempts to remotely repair the recorder failed, the mission operations were ended on November 28, 2022"
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2/4 "With an orbit that took it as far as 120,000 miles from Earth at times, #Geotail helped provide complementary data from remote parts of the #magnetosphere to give scientists a complete picture of how events seen in one area affect other regions."
3/4 "#Geotail also paired with observations on the ground to confirm the location and mechanisms of how #aurora form."
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