Earth’s magnetosphere, essential for protecting us from solar radiation, contrasts sharply with Mars, which lost its protective field. Studying this shield, especially through NASA’s missions…
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The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) —is a SmallSat mission that will characterize the electric currents that link Earth’s aurora to the planet’s magnetosphere. This…
Charged particles from the sun coming towards earth interact with the geocorona, a wide cloud of hydrogen atoms extending into space from the Earth. Charge…
Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at…
Artist impression (not to scale) idealizing how the solar wind shapes the magnetospheres of Venus (top), Earth (middle) and Mars (bottom). Credit: ESA First experimental…
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s…
As electrons accelerated by Alfvén waves stream along the Earth’s magnetic field (yellow drops), they collide with oxygen atoms (white dots) and molecules of oxygen…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPLThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a collaborative…
Experimental platform combines Large Plasma Device with lasers, magnetic dipoles; reveals insights about Earth’s shield against solar wind. A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object,…
Illustration of the TRACERS satellites in space. TRACERS will fly through the Earth’s magnetic cusp to study magnetic interactions between Earth and the solar wind.…
North of Norway over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas, a magnetic bubble known as the cusp surrounds Earth and dips inward. Some air in the…
The Earth’s magnetosphere can undergo global compression due to solar wind. This compression creates thin and non-ideal current sheets in the magnetotail. NASA’s MMS spacecraft…
An animated illustration of magnetospheric waves, in light blue. At the front of the magnetosphere, these waves appear to be still. Credit: Martin Archer/Emmanuel Masongsong/NASA…
[embedded content]Credit: All-sky camera, Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) within the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). Data provided as part of ESA’s Space…
An artist’s depiction with cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation, called the Van Allen Belts, that surround Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight…
An animated illustration of magnetospheric waves, in light blue. At the front of the magnetosphere, these waves appear to be still. Credit: Martin Archer/Emmanuel Masongsong/NASA…
The findings of a new study by the University of Liverpool provides further evidence of an approximately 200 million-year long cycle in the strength of…
Excavations at Tel Tifdan / Wadi Fidan. Credit: Thomas E. Levy International research by Tel Aviv University, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome,…
When the Sun evolves to become a red giant star, the Earth may be swallowed by our star’s atmosphere, and with a much more unstable…
NASA’s Gateway Lunar Outpost. Credit: NASA NASA’s Gateway lunar outpost will address one of the biggest concerns for space travel beyond Earth’s orbit by measuring…