Sentences with phrase «field around the planet»

And without a protective magnetic field around the planet, solar radiation would have stripped Earth's atmosphere and bombarded the surface, which was apparently the fate of Mars.

Coates et al. (2015) suggested that the presence of photoelectrons in the tail, together with low - energy ions, is possible evidence for a polar wind style escape at Venus, along the draped magnetic field around the planet.

It's a potential indication of an incredibly powerful magnetic field around the planet.

«A host star is active, sends out a big flare, it interacts with the magnetic field around a planet, and we could measure it.

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However, when he sensed that funding in his original field, X-ray astronomy, was drying up, he started thinking about new tools for studying planets around other stars.

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.

This research will contribute to a once - per - decade report on the field of astrophysics, produced by the National Academies, that NASA uses to help chart a course for future missions, some of which could continue the search for planets around other stars, known as exoplanets.

NASA's Cassini mission followed in the Voyagers» wake, and studied Saturn's magnetic field from orbit around the ringed planet between 2004 and 2017.

This invisible «force field» around our planet has a general shape resembling an ice cream cone, with a rounded front and a long, trailing tail that faces away from the sun.

NASA might choose to extend it, but the spacecraft could still succumb any day to the intense radiation from the deadly halos of high - energy particles trapped around the planet by magnetic fields.

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.

Mars was flooded with an invisible tide of charged particles from the coma, and the powerful magnetic field around the comet temporarily merged with — and overwhelmed — the planet's own weak one.

He imagines the planets might have powerful protective magnetic fields, and creatures on the surface would lumber around in thick, radiation - resistant armor.

Earth is protected from a similar fate only by its strong magnetic field, which guides the solar wind around the planet.

Portrait of a young planet The Jack Hills zircons show that a magnetic field existed as early as 4 billion years ago, fluctuating in strength from a value similar to today's — around 25 microteslas — to about 12 % of that.

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.

As was the case with the Pioneer Venus data, he says, these signals might instead be generated by processes involving the charged particles and magnetic fields draped around the planet.

MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA — NASA's Kepler space telescope appears to have confirmed the existence of an alien world smaller than our own Earth — the first time such a planet has been discovered around a star like our sun.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

Habitable Earth - size planets might turn up sooner around smaller, cooler stars in Kepler's field of view, where water could persist on closer - orbiting planets that would complete laps around their host stars more quickly.

The Earth's magnetic field provides a sturdy defence against the solar wind, deflecting the energetic particles around the planet; however, if a fast solar stream catches up with a slow solar stream, it generates an enhancement in both the material and the associated magnetic field.

If these planets are as prevalent locally as they are in Kepler field, then the distance to the nearest one is around 12 light - years.

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.

It will carry a Wide Field Instrument for surveys, and a Coronagraph Instrument designed to block the glare of individual stars and reveal the faint light of planets orbiting around them.

The data revealed that the planet's magnetic field is much like the Earth's, which deflects the solar wind around the planet.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

This will be followed by the first part of the ESA / Roscosmos ExoMars mission, which will put an orbiter around the planet and a lander down on the surface, to examine the atmosphere and the planet's electric fields, all in preparation for a 2018 followup mission.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained with SPHERE, the new planet f... ▽ More The planetary system discovered around the young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of system architectures at these separations, and c) perform comparative (exo) planetology.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

Our planet's magnetic field is generated by molten iron swirling around in the planet's outer core around a smaller, solid core — a process that creates a self - sustaining geomagnetic dynamo.

The occurrence of 2 - 4 Re planets in the Kepler field increases with decreasing Teff, making these small planets seven times more abundant around cool stars than the hottest stars in our sample.

It is suprising that no papers (that I KNOW of, correct me if I'm wrong) came out regarding CME direct hits of Mercury and Venus while spacecraft were in orbit around these planets.I assume this is because neither planet has a magnetic field, and the strength of such CME's can be INFERRED from hypothetically equivalent hitting Earth's magnetic field.

Outflowing plasma can thoroughly disrupt communications and navigation equipment, with damage to satellites and even power blackouts, all this with our own planet's magnetic field around us.

«Aurora [s] are very unlikely because (a) it's very unlikely there's a magnetic field to focus the charged particles into a small region of the atmosphere (necessary at other planets) and (b) the tenuous solar wind is likely deflected far [10s of Pluto radii] around Pluto,» Bagenal said in an email.

During its January 2008 flyby, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft detected an internal magnetic field consistent with the field from a dipole nearly aligned with the planet's spin axis (with a dipole tilt around 10 °).

5) a geophysical model of how shifting mass around at the Earth's surface changes the Earth's gravity field and rotation and deforms the surface of the planet.

This magnet field is inclined 7 degrees to Mercury's axis of rotation and produces a magnetosphere around the planet.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, shown in an artist's rendering, will measure tiny fluctuations in Earth's gravitational field to show how water moves around the planet.

Every year, the TV event brings together a bunch of cute puppies to romp, run and roll around a mini football field for Animal Planet's alternative to the Super Bowl.

In and around Crissy Field, the uses have been changing, encompassing everything from bicycle rentals to the leasing of hangars to Planet Granite and Le Petit Baleen.

As with navigating the asteroid fields in space, cruising around planet side areas takes some skill.

You might have to spray more of your team's color of jizz around an arena to win, or you might be racing through a field of cacti (yes, ouch), flying to the big anus planet in the sky, or tasked with rounding up wiener dogs (i.e. dachshunds).

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

But it circles the subject relentlessly like a satellite around a planet, wobbling in and out of art's force field.

5) a geophysical model of how shifting mass around at the Earth's surface changes the Earth's gravity field and rotation and deforms the surface of the planet.

Like yourself, I also discovered a relationship between the position of Uranus and Saturn, shown here: I am just not sure yet if the correlation is caused by the position of the planets [gravitationally] forcing a change in the sun's solar polar magnetic fields or if it is just the other way around.

Stephen traveled around the world in search of experiences in sustainable living culminating in the creation and hosting of «Edible Adventures» for the Travel Channel in 2006 and now he is the food field reporter for Planet Greens Daily news show G - Word.