From the largest planets to comets, there are a variety of worlds in the Solar System that experience aurorae. On Earth, the ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has detected magnetic distortions in solar wind, known as switchbacks. To better understand ...
A mineral grain from a meteorite preserved evidence that water was present on Mars 4.45 billion years ago, and it may have ...
With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and ... dynamo powering a planet-wide magnetic field. What shut down the Martian dynamo? Scientists are still ...
This means that our atmosphere is protected from this onslaught of the solar wind. But objects without magnetic fields – like Mars, Venus and comets – are not protected and they fall victim to ...
Researchers used simulations to estimate the age of the Martian "dynamo ... Without a strong magnetic field, Mars could not protect its atmosphere from solar wind, leading to the loss of its ...
They get carried along our planet’s magnetic field to higher ... the effect that solar wind – energetic particles from the Sun – and coronal mass ejections have on the Martian atmosphere.