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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A NASA satellite studying the Earth's magnetic field has stopped operating after six years, the space agency said Friday.
The Image satellite, launched in 2000, successfully completed its two-year primary mission, according to a NASA news release. It made observations until last month when engineers discovered that its power supply had failed.
Image — short for Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Aural Global Exploration — was the first space probe to study the entire magnetosphere, an invisible field that extends for thousands of miles beyond Earth.
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