Thread by @TaNaishaJ

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"

nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

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."

#magnetosphere

4/4 "#Geotail was originally slated for a four-year run, but the mission was extended several times due to its high-quality data return, which contributed to over a thousand #scientific #publications."

scitechdaily.com/nasas-geotail-…

1/2 #Space #weather correlation with Geotail's second data recorder failure,... two days before the shortest day of 2022 (June 28), a couple days after a big coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun's southern hemisphere (June 26),...

2/2 ... a few days after a co-rotating interaction region (CIR)-induced G-1 Class geomagnetic storm took place (June 25 - June 26).

spaceweather.com/archive.php?vi…

timeanddate.com/time/earth-rot…