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A massive asteroid struck Ganymede, Jupiter’s and the Solar System’s largest moon, roughly 4 billion years ago, producing a significant shift in its rotational axis. This event, which formed the conspicuous Valhalla Basin, was so powerful that it shifted Ganymede’s axis about 7 degrees, changing the moon’s geological history.
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft successfully passed through Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, completing a significant achievement in its mission to explore Jupiter. The mission, led by ESA, tested the RADiation-hard Electron Monitor (RADEM), designed to measure high-energy particles in severe settings.
A team of scientists compared data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter and discovered that magnetic waves known as Alfvén waves, essentially a form of plasma wave, are responsible for pumping energy into the solar wind, causing it to accelerate and heat up as it travels away from the Sun.
A new study was conducted to understand the precursors to the 2021 Fukushima Prefecture Offshore Earthquake (Mj = 7.3), which occurred on February 13, 2021, off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, as an aftershock of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The investigation, led by Masashi Hayakawa and Yasuhide Hobara, focused on the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) channels and multi-parameter anomalies that occurred before the earthquake.
A recent study by Társilo Girona of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Kyriaki Drymoni of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich proposed a new machine learning technique for predicting big earthquakes months in advance. The study, published in Nature Communications on August 28, 2024, intended to improve earthquake predictions and public safety.
NASA has postponed the return of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) due to safety concerns over Boeing’s Starliner aircraft. The mission, originally planned for September 2024, has been postponed to February 2025.
The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission successfully completed the world’s first lunar-Earth flyby on August 20, 2024, a vital maneuver that used the gravitational forces of the Moon and Earth to send the spacecraft toward Venus. This accomplishment is critical for saving fuel and modifying the spacecraft’s trajectory as it travels to Jupiter.
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks identified a new electromagnetic wave called the “specularly reflected whistler.” This wave, caused by low-latitude lightning, challenged earlier notions by revealing that lightning energy can escape the ionosphere and enter the magnetosphere, impacting space weather dynamics. The discovery of the “specularly reflected whistler” which is an electromagnetic wave…
A comprehensive investigation headed by Lewis P. Bailey of the National Oceanography Centre and involving global collaborations revealed the complicated and unpredictable behaviour of deep-sea currents. This four-year study offshore North Mozambique investigates how these currents interact with the seafloor, challenging existing models and bringing new insights into marine ecosystems.
Researchers discovered that Earth’s rotational slowing occurs in a staircase pattern rather than a flat drop. This pattern, discovered after intensive geological and astronomical investigation, shows alternating periods of stability and fast change in Earth’s rotation over the last 650 million years.
