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Date: Mon, Dec 11, 2006, 06:32 PM PST
Five space probes designed and built by UC Berkeley physicists have been trucked from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to Florida to be readied for a Feb. 15 launch, the first five-satellite launch by NASA. The mission, named for the Greek god often called "blind justice," will impartially decide between two competing theories of how the solar wind triggers substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere, which are responsible for the kinetic northern and southern lights.<br><br><a href='http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/12/11_themis.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/12/11_themis.shtml</a><br><br>
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