20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
...prone to alteration when they interact with high-speed solar wind streams or coronal mass ejections emanating from the Sun... measuring," said Reeves. As the declining phase of the solar cycle approaches, researchers have learned that this is often when...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
...impacts? Is it from internal processes on the Moon itself, such as ancient volcanism? Or could it be an ongoing process of the solar wind reacting with lunar materials to create OH or H2O?" Understanding what processes are occurring on the Moon could...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
...streams of gas trailing behind comets as they whizz through the Solar System, scientists noticed that O2 was present – something that ... the comets surface, and were then accelerated by the solar wind to crash back onto the comet at high speeds like...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
...hold in the ~4.5 billion years since the birth of the Solar System? Not necessarily so, say two scientists working on two ...upper atmosphere and blown to Mars and Venus via powerful solar winds, through microbes hitching a ride on space crafts, or...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... auroras and they are caused by the interaction of the solar wind (charged particles flowing from the Sun) with a planet’s... like auroras. They are also generated by the interaction of solar radiation with molecules in the upper atmosphere – not with a...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... the European Space Agency (ESA). The initial mission, which was dedicated to the study of interactions between solar winds and terrestrial magnetosphere, was soon followed by two additional Cluster II satellites on 9 August. Three years later...
