Sun-Earth Days 2014

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Goddard Space Flight Center

Sun-Earth Days 2014

2015: International Year of Light

  • January 14, 2015: 10th anniversary of (Huygens) landing on Titan
  • March 5, 2015: Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around Ceres
  • March 12, 2015: Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) Launch and Live Webcast: Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • March 20, 2015: Total Solar Eclipse - Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Northwestern Asia
  • March 2015: MESSENGER spacecraft will impact the surface of Mercury
  • April 2015: Global Astronomy Month
  • April 4, 2015: Total Lunar Eclipse - shortest total lunar eclipse of the century
  • April 12, 2015: Global Astronomy Month SunDay
  • April 13-17, 2015: Space Weather Workshop
  • April 25, 2015: International Astronomy Day
  • (May or June, 2015) Space Weather Enterprise Forum
  • July 1, 2015: Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
  • July 14, 2015: New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto
  • Jul 28 - Aug 4, 2015 Heliophysics Summer School
  • Sept 13, 2015 Partial Solar Eclipse
  • September 19, 2015 International Observe the Moon Night
  • Sept 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse (Harvest moon lunar eclipse)
  • Nov. 23-27, 2015: European Space Weather Week

NASA Fact

The fastest coronal mass ejection was recorded on August 4, 1972 and traveled from the sun to earth in 14.6 hours - a speed of nearly 10 million kilometers per hour!