News Archive / Tagged: solar wind

• Mars’ magnetic field is 10 times stronger than previously thought

  Laurel KornfeldApril 14th, 2020

  Data collected by NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander on Mars has surprised scientists by indicating the Red Planet has a magnetic field 10 times stronger than previously suspected.

• New Horizons science instrument detects slowing of solar wind

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 12th, 2019

  NASA's New Horizons mission has caught 'wind' of the ragged edges of our Solar System.

• Weak, localized magnetic fields cause variations in lunar surface brightness

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 8th, 2019

  The Moon has small, localized magnetic fields that deflect solar wind, producing patterns of light and dark swirls on the lunar surface.

• New Horizons may have detected hydrogen wall at solar system’s edge

  Laurel KornfeldAugust 16th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, now on its way to its second target, may have detected evidence of a wall of hydrogen that scientists theorize exists at the boundary between the heliosphere, a bubble-like region influenced by the solar wind, and interstellar space.