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Radio towers at the VLF Transmitter Cutler in Maine
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Terrestrial Radio Signals May Suppress High-Energy Electrons

by Morgan Rehnberg 12 October 202018 January 2023

Naval radio signals may cause the formation of a barrier observed during geomagnetic storms that is seemingly impenetrable by relativistic electrons.

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Liu Receives 2019 Fred L. Scarf Award

by AGU 16 September 20209 September 2022

Terry Zixu Liu received the 2019 Fred L. Scarf Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is given annually to “one honoree in recognition of an outstanding dissertation that contributes directly to solar–planetary science.”

A 2D drawing of Jupiter’s magnetosphere in the noon-midnight meridional plane
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A Whistle Here, There, and Everywhere on the Giant Planet

by A. Yau 27 August 202010 March 2022

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is “hearing whistles” all over the place on Jupiter, a type of natural plasma waves called whistlers that are sometimes associated with atmospheric lightning.

Plots recording observations of electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves at four different locations
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All Hands on Deck to Catch Ion Cyclotron Waves

by A. Yau 7 August 202011 August 2022

An international armada of orbiting satellites and ground VLF network join forces to form a “magnetosphere-ionosphere observatory” to size up electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in the magnetosphere.

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft orbits Mars and samples electrons behind the Martian bow shock in this artist’s rendition.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Explaining the Missing Energy in Mars’s Electrons

by Mark Zastrow 11 November 201910 March 2022

Electrons energized and trapped at Mars were thought to lose energy inside the planet’s magnetosheath, but new research suggests a different explanation of spacecraft data.

Plots of average wave electric field power spectral densities on the nightside
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Human-made Emissions Modify Electron Space Environment

by Viviane Pierrard 2 August 20198 August 2022

Very Low Frequency transmitters used for communications with submarines modify the dynamics of energetic electrons in the inner radiation belt and the slot region.

Measurements of electron density from the COSMIC satellite
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Holistic Views of the Nighttime Ionosphere

by Michael W. Liemohn 22 July 201922 March 2023

The nightside ionosphere, at latitudes away from the auroral zone, should have very little charged particle density, but it doesn’t. A new comprehensive study of satellite data explains why.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Red and Green Aurora Stop and Go for Different Reasons

by Viviane Pierrard 5 July 201911 August 2022

Green-line arc is found to be embedded within large-scale upward field aligned currents while red-line-only arc is found to be associated with low-energy precipitation bursts.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Plasma Density Distribution in Mercury’s Magnetosphere

by Y. Wang 27 February 20197 March 2022

A new measurement of plasma density distribution in Mercury’s magnetosphere obtained from observations of field line resonance events provides necessary constraint for many planetary science issues.

An artist’s rendition of the NASA satellites that observe Earth’s magnetosphere
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New Plasma Wave Observations from Earth’s Magnetosphere

by Terri Cook 28 January 201913 October 2022

The first simultaneous observations of multiple electromagnetic wave types in Earth’s magnetosphere may inaugurate a new field of inquiry into cross-frequency wave interactions.

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