They found that the sharply oscillating magnetic field smooths out to gentle waves while accelerating the surrounding solar wind, according to a University of Michigan-led study published in The ...

Multi-spacecraft scientific missions for space physics have been flown since the 1960s with early missions such as IMP, VELA, ...

Given Mars's lack of a global magnetic field, auroras here are instead diffused across the planet. However, sometimes this solar wind can "disappear" in rare events when there is a gap in the ...