13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
... ultimately work their way down into the inner magnetosphere triggering ultra-low frequency waves, which affect things...help researchers spot this phenomenon on other planets with magnetospheres, like Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury, and what effect...
30 June 2020
How Earth’s protective magnetic bubble can ‘flap’ over the Moon
.... While Earth is safe inside its magnetic bubble - the magnetosphere - the Moon continually passes into and out of the stretched... – in the full Moon phase – it is inside the magnetosphere and thought to be protected but this new research, published ...
September 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...particles ejected by the Sun can stream into the Earth’s magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds the planet and acts as... in solar wind conditions causing a distortion of Earth’s magnetosphere. This can occur, for example, when large amounts ...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... leave the protection of both Earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere, thereby increasing their exposure to harmful space-borne ...During EM-1, Orion will fly without a crew beyond Earth’s magnetosphere, orbit the Moon and conclude the return trip by ...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... better understood. We will be actively engaged in defending against asteroids, comets, solar flares, coronal ejections, changes to Earth’s magnetosphere, and orbital space debris. The world is moving towards a new reality where humanity will depend...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... of the volatiles in our solar system. To understand how this occurred we have to start at the beginning. The lunar magnetosphere protecting its tenuous atmosphere from the solar wind and allowing Earth’s early atmosphere a pathway to be deposited...
