the BepiColombo probe It made its first approach to Mercury, and thanks to its data, a team has concluded that the mechanisms causing the aurorae on Earth may be the same throughout the solar system.
A study indicates that the aurora borealis magnetosphere of southern Mercury are similar to those seen on Earth and Mars, so the mechanism may be universal across all planets in our solar neighborhood.
The strange X-ray auroras on Jupiter are no longer a mystery
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BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)which left for the innermost planet in the solar system in 2018 and in October 2021 made its first planned flyby.
the terrestrial twilight They are created by interactions between the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted from the sun, and an electrically charged upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere.
how Mercury It only has a thin atmosphere, called the exosphere, and the aurorae are generated by the interaction of the solar wind with the surface of the planet.
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