The first human spaceflight in a polar orbit (Fram2) will launch next week - Tue April 1 2025 ~ 3UT! The Fram2 astronauts are in a scientific collaboration called the SolarMaX project with The University Centre in Svalbard and the ARCTICS ISSI group.
The goal of the SolarMaX project is to create an open-source database of aurora photographs for researchers over a 3-5 day orbit window. This collection will include videos captured from Fram2, as well as those taken from the ground by anyone on Earth who can observe the aurora and measurements from scientific instruments.
During the mission, scientists and citizen scientists will monitor conditions for certain types of what we call ‘weird aurora’. The astronauts will then be alerted if any types are spotted along their orbit path, so they can be ready. Photos should be submitted to the Skywarden database for researchers to use and a selection of people who do this will win prizes that have been to space.
If you have instruments that could be useful for the mission, then turn them into high-resolution mode and let us know! If you can spread the word about the mission in your network then that is also great - anyone can take part using a camera or smartphone in any area with the opportunity for aurora!
Read more information on www.solarmaxmission.com<http://www.solarmaxmission.com> and contact katieh(a)unis.no<mailto:katieh@unis.no> with any questions or comments.
Hello!
Can this be sent out to the EISCAT mailing list? 🙂
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Interested in adventure and aurora?
We are employing two PhD students at the University Centre in Svalbard. One to research a newly discovered auroral emission and another to dive deeper into our understanding of auroral intensities. If you - or anyone you know - would like to live in the world's northernmost town and use our world-class auroral observatory then please check out the job adverts:
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PHD1: Continuum Emissions<https://tinyurl.com/bdh9u522>
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PHD2: Auroral Intensities<https://tinyurl.com/ycxk8msr>
Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested and get in touch (katieh(a)unis.no<mailto:katieh@unis.no> and/or noorap(a)unis.no) if you have any questions.
Deadline: 25 April 2025
Warm regards,
Katie Herlingshaw & Noora Partamies
Dear friends of E3D,
a 19th E3D user meeting will take place hybrid in Uppsala
Ångströmlaboratory IRF/Online May 7-8, 2025. Please find more
information at
https://www.space.irfu.se/workshops/EISCAT-3D_User2025/
Preliminary subjects of presentations/discussions are
* E3D data analyisis
* 1st experiments
* Common Programmes
* Visualization and
more depending on your input and contributions..
The registration link is
https://forms.gle/x9siEacjvdNgumfs6
Best regards,
Stephan Buchert and Thomas Ulich
Dr. Stephan Buchert
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Handy/Mob +46-708566324
Dear EISCAT Users,
Next week, on 19th of March, EGI which provides the Check-in (Log-in
service) to our https://portal.eiscat.se/ will migrate the Check-in
service to a new authentication mechanism.
By this email I want to inform you of the following:
During the migration, the portal will be up and running, but no one will
be able to log in. The migration is expected to start at 8:00 CET on
19th March 2025 and should be finished by 13:00 CET.
After migration, issues may still arise for a while as some Identity
Providers in the eduGAIN network may not be used to authenticate after
the migration until they update their metadata (normally a max of 24h).
If you experience problems longer contact us for further advice.
Lastly for a period of up to few weeks new registrations and changes in
access made in the EISCAT Virtual organization will not reflect
automatically directly into access to the portal. So even if you
register for EISCAT VO you might not be able to access the service right
away. Please contact us in urgent matters.
Thank you and best regards,
Mária
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Mária Miháliková, PhD
Staff Scientist, EISCAT
Bengt Hultqvists väg 1, 981 92 Kiruna, Sweden
Work phone: +46 (0)72 5813347
e-mail:maria.mihalikova@eiscat.se
