November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
.... One of the most unexpected discoveries by Mariner 10 was that Mercury has a global magnetic field like Earth, but much weaker. The accepted model of magnetic field generation for Earth holds that swirling motions in portions of the liquid outer...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... in the Solar System after Earth, and the only other inner planet besides Earth to have a significant magnetic field. This is a key parameter in allowing life to take hold on a planet, as without its shielding Earth would receive a significant...
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
...hot – one million degree celsius – plasma which flows along magnetic field loops that have emerged from the Sun’s surface. When the ..., she found evidence where rain was forming on open magnetic field lines, meaning that they were anchored to the Sun ...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...three distinct categories: particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field; particles shot into space during solar flares (solar... percent of space radiation is stopped by the atmosphere and magnetic field. But this is not the case on the ISS. Together...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...’s atmosphere, they still enjoy the benefits provided by the magnetic field of Earth. But when astronauts venture beyond LEO towards the... wind, which are captured and trapped in Earth’s magnetic field. The risk to astronauts from the Van Allen belts...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... Moon and material for shielding the inhabitants and their equipment, where the absence of an atmosphere and magnetic field demands protection from radiation exposure, temperature extremes, meteorite impact and lunar dust. The concept of colonising...
