... hour, leaving an atmospheric haze in their wake for days or even weeks. And to top it all off, there’s no magnetosphere, so the Red Planet is constantly bombarded by carcinogenic solar and galactic radiation. The second test flight of SpaceX...
... 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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
... southward, in the opposite direction to Earth’s fields, the effects can be dramatic - the whole shape of the Earth’s magnetosphere can change! NASAIt is important to remember that the impact of not listening to advice from scientists can bring...