...poles, are increasingly at risk of being greatly diminished. ESA’s Swarm mission satellites are designed to measure Earth’s magnetosphere. These satellites confirm what we had begun to suspect - that Earth’s magnetic poles are apparently in a process...
... seven as the most dangerous threats: Solar storms and flares, known as coronal mass ejections. Changes in Earth’s magnetosphere which result in the destruction of the protective shield that could deflect coronal mass ejections. Potentially dangerous...
... (MOSIF), which provides thermal protection, and the mechanical and electrical interfaces for the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), a spinning spacecraft provided by JAXA. It will carry a payload of five advanced scientific experiments, including...
... the subsurface ocean of Europa. Another proposed by Robert Ebert of the Southwest Research Institute is the JUpiter MagnetosPheric boundary ExploreR (JUMPER), a SmallSat to study Jupiter’s magnetic field, including its interaction with the solar...
... of a post-mission disposal module for Earth-orbiting satellites, and the study of particle motion in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
... the human race to move beyond the confines of the home planet. About the author Dr James Green is a magnetospheric scientist. He is currently the NASA Chief Scientist and was previously the director of the Planetary Science Division...