The New Horizons space probe is approaching Jupiter and will reach it's closest point to the planet on Feb 28th, 2007. The probe will be considered to be 'passing' Jupiter between Jan, 2007 and June, 2007, during which time New Horizons will be making observations of the planet. The main goal in approaching Jupiter is to use the large planet's gravity to accelerate the probe up to 52,000 mph - 9,000 miles per hour faster than it is currently traveling. The probe will then continue on to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons is expected to reach Pluto in July, 2015.

While the New Horizons probe passes Jupiter it will be capturing some images of the planet, especially an are known as the 'little red spot', a small storm located south of Jupiter's 'Great Red Spot'.

NASA will be launching five satellites to study geomagnetic substorms. The project is title THEMIS or 'Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms'. Sometimes acronyms are very useful. The project will investigate how solar winds interact with the magnetosphere. It sounds very similar to the previous European project reported on earlier at Aceize.

Solar Wind propagates with random fluctuations, leading to turbulence in space. This study was conducted using 4 satellites to plot turbulence in 3D. The four satellites travel in a pyramidal shape at the leading edge of the earth's magnetosphere. It is not clear who or when the study was conducted, but I am guessing the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany had something to do with it. The experiment has been ongoing since at least 2002.