31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, is a distinguished figure in the field of solar physics. His work describes an entire complex system of magnetic fields, plasmas and energetic particles that make up the solar wind phenomenon...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...and unsuitable in close proximity to a strong gravitational field where rapid acceleration is needed to maintain control. Chemical... instruments for measuring composition, temperature and any magnetic fields. Unlike the MINERVA-II1 rovers, MASCOT had...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... that an improved understanding of this mechanism might resolve some of the current puzzles in cosmology, especially if magnetic fields are wrapped into the story. As The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook [Cambridge University Press, 2019] makes clear...
31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
...has already been detected by satellite experiments in the gravitational field of the rotating Earth. However because of the size of... the pulsar's motion or due to the electrons and magnetic fields that the pulses encounter.” At first the stellar pair ...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... between Rosetta and Philae provided information on which a landing ellipse could be defined. Together with correlation of the magnetic field measurements between the ROMAP instrument on board Philae and the RPC-MAG instrument on board Rosetta a very...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Europa. The unique challenges in the Jupiter system include the high-ionizing radiation due to Jupiter’s strong magnetic field, temperatures reaching below -150C and decreased solar-insolation (sunlight). All of these factors limit the capabilities...
