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...
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...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
...Planetary Orbiter (MPO), a three-axis stabilised and nadir pointing spacecraft, and the JAXA-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), a spinning spacecraft carrying a payload of five experiments and instruments. Together, the two make up BepiColombo...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... will be elucidated. Within Jupiter’s satellite system, JUICE will also study the moons’ interactions with the magnetosphere, gravitational coupling and long-term tidal evolution of the Galilean satellites. At Ganymede, the mission will characterise...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...Noise’ generated from the high energy electrons in Jupiter’s magnetosphere, for example, is likely to penetrate the instruments and...that create H2O+; the high energy plasma in Jupiter’s magnetosphere causes the release of H2O from Europa’s surface ice...
