Sentences with phrase «internal magnetic field»

That cooling time frame would not have allowed for meteoric impact magnetization, which usually fades within a day or so, to be locked in, Garrick - Bethell says, pointing to a more permanent internal magnetic field on the moon.

That implies that the internal magnetic field is «much more complex than people thought» he said.

But the interaction of the two materials at their interface creates an internal magnetic field that aligns all the atoms in the nickel iron layers.

Among its many accomplishments, the MESSENGER mission determined Mercury's surface composition, revealed its geological history, discovered its internal magnetic field is offset from the planet's center, and verified its polar deposits are dominantly water ice.

While studying the magnetic environment around Jupiter, Galileo found that Europa didn't possess any internal magnetic field.

Do stars have an internal magnetic field?

During its eleven flybys of Europa, the spacecraft found that the moon didn't possess any internal magnetic field of its own.

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 °).