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BepiColombo spacecraft's flyby of Mercury begins unraveling the planet's magnetic mystery
The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its ...
The sun’s magnetic field is where the ‘stuff’ is. It can be dangerous.
Scientists have been able to routinely measure the magnetic field on the sun’s surface called the photosphere. Measuring the ...
A new era of solar observation: International team produces global maps of coronal magnetic field
For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the ...
Mercury's magnetic landscape mapped in 30 minutes
As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet's ...
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A new era of solar observation
The smaller UCoMP instrument is actually better-suited to give scientists global pictures of the coronal magnetic field, albeit at lower resolution ... we have to observe it in 3D -- and everywhere ...