15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...charged particles flowing from the Sun) with a planet’s magnetic field. However auroras are not the only light phenomena to ...radiation with molecules in the upper atmosphere – not with a magnetic field – and occur between about 80 and 120 km over ...
04 November 2020
New studies reveal the origin of fast radio bursts
... the main contender. As their description suggests, magnetars are powered by intense magnetic fields that are one thousand trillion times stronger than Earth's magnetic field and are so intense that it heats the surface to nearly 10 million degrees...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... now-defunct Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It is powered by solar panels and is designed to study Mars’ climate, magnetic field, geological structure, and surface composition. Providing the landing is a success, Zhurong has a minimum life expectancy...
05 July 2021
Hope probe catches striking pictures of auroras at Mars
... had a thicker, warmer atmosphere that allowed liquid water to flow on its surface. It was kept in place by a global magnetic field, that like Earth was believed to have been generated by a dynamo effect, caused by molten liquid in its core...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... during previous launches,” it claimed. Two days before the launch a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field, though it was not categorised as a major space weather event. In fact, according to the space weather website (spaceweather...
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...
