Sentences with phrase «planetary magnetic field»

As I posted previously, planetary magnetic fields give us strong evidence for a young solar system and a young earth.

On Mars, there is no organized planetary magnetic field to guide the particles north and south — so they can go anywhere.

«While WASP - 12b is far too hot to support life, being able to detect planetary magnetic fields will help with our understanding of and identifying the habitable zones around exoplanets,» says Joseph Llama, a Ph.D. student on Vidotto's team.

At stake here is the minimum planetary magnetic field needed to retain an atmosphere (Kay and team believe a magnetosphere twice the size of the planetary radius is necessary).

Especially if it's linked with other processes that can help habitability such as CME avoidance and increased planetary magnetic field strength.

Although this article is very much dominated by planetary magnetic fields and their potential shielding effect from CMEs (with limitations), a rather more important and somewhat understated but positive corollary is that there is a specific area for CME generation (as opposed to uniformally about the star) roughly centred onthe stellar Equatorial area.

An extremely small tilt is challenging to explain with scientists» current understanding of how planetary magnetic fields are generated, thus suggesting more sophisticated dynamics inside Saturn.

And Mars is a) easy to get to and b) probably impossible to terraform due to its cold temperatures, dust and lack of planetary magnetic field.

It may be that several seemingly disparate phenomena were essential in making Earth a habitable world: the formation of the moon, the planetary magnetic field, plate tectonics and the presence of water.

Scientists think a dynamo — a rotating, convecting, electrically conducting fluid in a planet's outer core — is the mechanism for generating the planetary magnetic fields.

Apart from Pluto, Mars remains the only planet in the Solar System with no planetary magnetic field so far detected.

Given that no old - earth theory comes close to doing this, it seems clear that from a planetary magnetic field standpoint, it is more reasonable to believe the earth and solar system are young than it is to believe they are old.