Astronomy on MSN8 天
Why so many spacecraft carry magnetometers
The public is enamored of images returned to Earth by space probes. Whether they show the moons of Jupiter, the rings of ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN17 天
NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Inside the planet’s magnetosphere were electron radiation belts with an intensity second only to Jupiter’s notoriously brutal ...
Interesting Engineering11 天
Interesting facts about Jupiter that will blow your mind
This huge magnetosphere protects Jupiter’s moons from solar winds too. While this is not something to worry about on Earth, if we were to ever attempt to build outposts on Jupiter’s moons ...
EurekAlert!13 天
SwRI scientists identify unexpected variations in electrons connecting Jupiter with its moon Io
Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...
Quad-City Times24 天
Quad-Cities native, engineer contributes to NASA mission to Europa
To get close to Europa, the probe must pass through Jupiter’s immense magnetosphere, which causes intense radiation that could destroy many standard spacecrafts and probes. The magnetosphere of ...
NextBigFuture8 天
No Downsides for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft for Mars and Beyond
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...
Knowridge Science Report10 天
Is Europa alive? A laser could detect biosignatures from space
Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...