A variety of observations from satellites and other instruments have captured bits of the magnetosphere’s border, also called the magnetopause, from various vantage points in the past. By catching the ...

For several years, astronomers have been studying the impact of the solar wind striking the magnetopause, which defines the outer edges of the magnetosphere. Prior research has shown that as the ...

Abstract: Initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission aims to provide soft X-ray imager (SXI) ...

We present simplified magnetic dipole field modeling confined within a paraboloidal-shaped magnetopause to show how the expected Earth-Moon coupled magnetospheres provide a substantial buffer from ...

As flows of mass and energy, they couple solar wind and foreshock phenomena to the magnetopause and magnetosphere. In this talk, we review recent studies on jets. In particular, we examine the solar ...

These waves are actually known as Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities (KHIs), and they occur when plasma from the solar wind interacts with the magnetopause of a planet, the outer level of its magnetic ...

So the interface between the two can get interesting. The discovery of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at Jupiter's magnetopause will help astronomers understand the complex interplays taking place in Jovian ...

NASA’s Juno probe, which is orbiting Jupiter, has spotted unusual waves flanking its magnetosphere – a region dominated by the planet’s magnetic field. The Southwest Research Institute ...

Jets travel through the magnetosheath (red swirls), and eventually, some of them impact the magnetopause (bright blue line), the outer edge of Earth’s magnetosphere (blue shading). Earth’s ...

As one of the four payloads, SXI will provide macro-scale magnetopause images near subsolar region (field of view is 16°×27°). So far, several approaches had been developed to reconstruct the 3 ...