Sentences with phrase «planetary magnetospheres»

Krimigis, an expert in planetary magnetospheres, had a hand in both missions, as well as in visits to all the other worlds in the solar system.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

From the University of California — Los Angeles New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's near - space environment and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

Plasmas are found throughout the solar system in places such as planetary magnetosphere, solar wind and in the tails of comets.

He thinks the new results from the detailed analysis at Earth will influence future modeling of other planetary magnetospheres.

An expert in planetary magnetospheres, Krimigis has seen it all.

Yet planetary magnetospheres would be easier to spot at radio frequencies than planets themselves, says Gordon Walker of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, who has spotted an exoplanet's magnetic field indirectly by studying its host star.

The charged energetic particles in planetary magnetospheres can be related to space weather, in either a direct or an indirect way.

Since the Hermean magnetosphere occupies a unique position in the space plasma physics scenarios, the study of Mercury's magnetospheric processes will not only provide a clear picture of the planetary magnetosphere itself but it will also broaden our field of view of space plasma physics, in general.

The frequency of CME impacts may have significant implications for exoplanet habitability if the impacts compress the planetary magnetosphere leading to atmospheric erosion.