February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission are providing us more and more information about how Earth’s magnetic field is changing. The geomagnetosphere is about 15 per cent less effective in warding off the supercharged ions in a CME...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... cosmic rays) incident on the surface of Mars. Such radiation is almost entirely blocked on Earth by the combination of Earth’s magnetic field and its relatively thick atmosphere. Humans living in cities on Mars might need to spend much of their time...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...ExploreR (JUMPER), a SmallSat to study Jupiter’s magnetic field, including its interaction with the solar wind. ...interplanetary space. As they interact with the Sun’s magnetic field, the electron beams generate bursts of radio frequency signals...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
... suddenly erupting from a regular radio pulsar? "We think these X-ray bursts happened because the object's enormous magnetic field got twisted as the object was spinning," Majid said. In a scenario analogous to tectonic plates on Earth, the stress...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
...beyond Earth to search for the presence of life. The combination of the moon’s geological, compositional and induced magnetic field measurements all indicate that a salty, liquid water ocean spanning at least 100 kilometres in depth is sloshing about...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
.... "Several years from now, you will see the first images of the sun's pole and the magnetic field," St. Cyr said. The first close solar pass is expected to take place at the end of March 2022 at around...
