Magnetic Fields in the Solar System
Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions
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Beschreibung
This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview of the most recent research in the field.
Magnetic fields play an important role in making a planet habitable by protecting the environment from the solar wind. Without the geomagnetic field, for example, life on Earth as we know it would not be possible. And results from recent space missions to Mars and Venus strongly indicate that planetary magnetic fields play a vital role in preventing atmospheric erosion by the solar wind. However, very little is known about the underlying interaction between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetic field.
The book takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis,computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations.
Provides a broad overview of magnetic fields in our solar system and the modern methods employed to unravel their complexity
Results from a research program involving four leading planetary science institutes
Contributing scientists cover the whole science field with all its ramifications ranging from planetology, geophysics, numerical analysis to mathematics
Takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations
Provides a broad overview of magnetic fields in our solar system and the modern methods employed to unravel their complexity Results from a research program involving four leading planetary science institutes Contributing scientists cover the whole science field with all its ramifications ranging from planetology, geophysics, numerical analysis to mathematics Takes a synergistic interdisciplinary approach that combines newly developed tools for data acquisition and analysis, computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos, models of solar wind interaction, measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites, and laboratory investigations
Autor*in
Hermann Lühr
Themen in »Magnetic Fields in the Solar System«
Earth magnetic field planetary dynamo simulations planetary interior dynamics magnetic instability Jupiter magnetosphere Saturn magnetosphere Cassini results Mars magnetic field Mars Express planetary magnetosphere planet-moon interaction meteorite impact craters piezo-remanence secular variation of magnetic field strength CHAMP space mission
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“This book summarizes work done in the programme ‘PlanetMag’, sponsored by a German research foundation. It discusses observation and modelling of magnetic fields, or processes strongly influenced by magnetism, within different environments in the Solar System. … I would recommend this book as a well-referenced and up-to-date summary of research related to planetary magnetism and magnetosphers.” (Nick Achilleos, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1268), February, 2019)
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