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Tag Archives: ASPERA-3
Mars Express: Leaky atmosphere linked to lightweight planet
The Red Planet’s low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft shows that the Sun’s radiation may play … Continue reading
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Tagged Analyser of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms, ASPERA-3, ESA, European Space Agency, magnetosphere, Mars Express, MEX, solar wind
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Mars atmosphere well protected from solar wind
Despite the absence of a global Earth-like magnetic dipole, the Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind on ion escape from the planet. New research shows this using measurements from the Swedish particle instrument ASPERA-3 … Continue reading
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Tagged ASPERA-3, atmosphere, ESA, European Space Agency, magnetosphere, Mars Express, MEX, solar wind
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Does Mars’ bow shock location correlate with atmospheric dust?
A Lancaster University [UK] physicist has led an international study, based on data from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, which throws new light on the interaction between the planet Mars and supersonic particles in the solar wind. As the energetic particles … Continue reading
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Tagged ASPERA-3, atmosphere, bow shock, dust, dust storms, ESA, European Space Agency, global dust storms, Mars Express, Mars Express Analyser of Space Plasma and EneRgetic Atoms, MEX
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Mars ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to observations from ESA’s Mars Express. Understanding these effects may be crucial for ensuring safe radio communications between Mars and Earth … Continue reading