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The THEMIS mission plans to unravel the tantalizing mystery behind auroral substorms, an avalanche of magnetic energy powered by the solar wind that intensifies the northern and southern lights.
03.04.08 - For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why.
THEMIS has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power.
07.16.07 - Status report on the THEMIS spacecraft as of July 16, 2007.
02.17.07 - NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms mission successfully launched Saturday, Feb. 17 at 6:01 p.m. EST from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral.
02.16.07 - The launch of NASA's THEMIS spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket was scrubbed tonight six minutes before launch due to out-of-limit upper level winds.

All about the THEMIS satellites in a short video package.