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...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... holes), dual star systems of unknown origins, superfast flashes of stars of the UV Kit type (the dissipation of the magnetic field on red dwarves - analogous to Sun flares), potentially dangerous asteroids (Solar System) and space debris (near-Earth...
October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
..., it cannot send data captured by the NANOimager. Despite the damage however, it continues to collect measurements of the magnetic field and the satellite’s orbital dynamics, valuable information that has helped to improve its successor. With the...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...-energy astrophysics to date. However, polarization analyses with e-ASTROGAM will reveal many details about the geometry, magnetic fields and radiation processes of the high-energy astrophysical sources. Big hopes for extreme objects e-ASTROGAM will...
