For six days, it will collect images of the X-rays emanating from the edges of our planet's vast magnetosphere. This comprehensive view could illustrate how this protective boundary responds to ...

Description: BOOM will design a deployable boom and sensor payload that can mount to a CubeSat and enable low-noise magnetosphere data collection. Deployable booms have been used on space stations and ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...

But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly different from astronomers’ expectations, and scientists deemed the planet an outlier among the other large planets in ...

Description: CEMBA seeks to design a deployable boom-sensor assembly that allows a payload to measure the magnetosphere in a low-noise environment. For space research, spacecraft often hinder the ...

Mercury's magnetic field, as observed by the two flybys of the Mariner 10 spacecraft that penetrated the magnetosphere (one of which was a polar pass), had a magnitude of roughly 300 nT at the ...