May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... be mined for conversion to rocket propellant or drinking water for space colonisation. Helium-3 - produced by the impact of solar wind on the lunar surface - is a potentially valuable isotope of helium that could be used in future fusion reactors...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... have been much more expansive, but as it lost mass via nuclear fusion and the outward flowing solar wind, the rotation slowed down and the magnetic activity decreased. Over the last 4.6 billion years, the...
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
..., while no less important, involves processes that drive the solar wind. Key to both of these phenomena is something called coronal...streamers are what makes up the slow component of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that escapes the Sun...
16 November 2020
Venus didn't lose water to space, new study says
... Venus Express, Persson who defended her doctoral thesis last week, found that variations in the solar wind and the solar radiation affect how many ions escape. On average two protons (a proton is a hydrogen atom stripped of its...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...face of Mars, with the coloured areas indicating main solar wind interaction/ space environment features, including the magnetosheath (...by the bow shock, a boundary region where the solar wind and Mars ionosphere interact strongly (yellow) and the ...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... how intense radiation and energetic particles being blasted out from the Sun and carried by the solar wind through the Solar System impact our home planet, to better understand and predict periods of stormy ‘space weather...
