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Saturn’s magnetosphere is more lopsided than Earth’s

A new study built on six years of NASA Cassini spacecraft data has quantified a striking imbalance in Saturn’s magnetosphere, ...
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Saturn’s magnetosphere is lopsided, shaped by fast spin and Enceladus plasma

Saturn’s magnetic shield is not symmetrical. A new study analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found that the ...

Out beyond the Magnetosphere: Why space weather is one of Artemis II’s biggest challenges

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares for liftoff, most of the conversation in D.C. and around the nation has rightly ...

Astronomers Spot Previously Unknown Space ‘Cavity’ That’s Quietly Protecting the Moon

We had expected that the radiation on the lunar surface would be constant when the Moon is not inside the Earth’s ...
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Upper Atmosphere and Magnetosphere

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