Magnetospheres in the Solar System IX. Jia
Magnetotails in the Solar System All magnetized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) interact strongly with the solar wind and possess well developed magnetotails. It is not only the strongly magnetized planets that have mag... A Keiling,CM ...
Prior to the Mariner 10 encounters, Mercury was assumed to lack a global magnetic field and, as a result, to have a lunarlike interaction with the solar wind and no significant magnetosphere (Strom and Sprague, 2003). Mercury’ location deep in the heliosphere results in solar wind pressure ...
It’s likely that the solar wind is responsible for some of the Moon’s surface water. The lunar regolith contains silicates, and protons in the solar wind are able to reduce the oxygen out of those silicates. That oxygen then readily combines with hydrogen to form water. The problem wit...
The Earth’s magnetosphere is the outermost layer of the geospace system deflecting energetic charged particles from the Sun and solar wind. The solar wind has major impacts on the Earth’s magnetosphere, but it is unclear whether the same holds for sola
Since Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun among the solar system planets, it is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a high-speed (several hundred km/s) stream of plasma blowing from the Sun. Explorations of Mercury were first carried out by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974 and...
(but not above) the North and South Poles. The inner belt is mainly protons with some electrons; the outer one mainly electrons. The particles of the inner belt are believed to be produced by the collisions ofcosmic rayswith atoms in the upper atmosphere. Those of the outer belt are ...
“We are one big space weather event from losing communication satellites, our power grid assets, or both,” he said. Space weather refers to disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by interactions between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. These are generally associated ...
The existence of a magnetosphere in these objects was not recognized earlier. In both cases, a periodicity in the variation of some line parameters, originating near the region of the disk/star interaction, has been found. The third object is the young binary system HD 104237, hosting a ...
Combined with interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) magnitudes up to 30 nT and a small Parker spiral angle, Mercury’s weak internal magnetic field produces a unique magnetosphere in the solar system (Ness et al., 1975; Whang, 1977; Korth et al., 2018; Slavin et al., 2018; Jang et ...