Sentences with phrase «field around our solar system»

NASA's Mariner 10 mission detected a magnetic field around our solar system's innermost planet in 1974, but its cause remained a mystery — until recent measurements suggested that Mercury's core may be partly molten.

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Mercedes Lopez - Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has modeled the possibilities of magnetic fields around red dwarf planets, and a picture is gradually emerging: The planets likely form in the outer parts of their solar systems and migrate in.

ESA's probe would settle into orbit around Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system and the only one known to make its own magnetic field.

Picture the solar system's largest telescope, a telescope as long as the island of Manhattan, incorporating a lens the size of a football field: an instrument possessing the resolution to examine earth - like planets around neighboring stars light - years away.

Galileo provided new information about Io, the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, new evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa and possible similar oceans on Ganymede and Callisto, as well as a magnetic field around Ganymede and exospheres around Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

Researchers have found that an iron - containing mineral called dusty olivine, present in meteorites, retains a record of the magnetic field from the early solar system around 4.6 billion years ago.