10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma. The FIELDS instrument suite captures the scale and shape of electric and magnetic fields in the Sun’s atmosphere, while the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...-resolution measurements of the strength and direction of the Earth’s magnetic field using an advanced magnetometer, an accelerometer and an electric field instrument. The geomagnetic field models resulting from the Swarm mission enable new insights...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... twice the energy of the background solar wind,” says Professor Tim Horbury, a co-investigator on Parker Solar Probe's FIELDS instrument based at Imperial College London. "We are detecting remnants of structures from the Sun being hurled into space...