Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas
An international scientific team, including scientists from IRAP and led by LPP, has revealed, using data from the Cassini mission, that the interaction between Saturn and its moon Enceladus is […]
By allowing plasmas to exchange their magnetic connection, the magnetic reconnection process enables the sudden release of magnetic energy in the form of accelerated particles and rapid, heated flows. For […]
An X1.9-class solar flare that occurred on January 18 at 18:09 UT (Figure 1) generated a very fast solar storm directed towards Earth, causing a geomagnetic storm that began on […]
December was an eventful month for the development of the VENSPEC-U imaging spectrometer (developed for the ENVISION mission by LATMOS, IRAP, LIRA, and IAA), with the first spectrum from the […]
Electric discharges have for the first time been recorded within the storms and whirlwinds of dust – known as dust devils – that sweep across the surface of Mars. Captured […]
Over the past 48 hours, solar activity has been exceptionally intense, characterized by several major class X flares. These events generated significant solar storms directed toward Earth, causing a geomagnetic […]
Around Jupiter, a gigantic disk of magnetized plasma undergoes constant disturbances. How does it maintain its balance? Thanks to the Juno mission, a CNRS Earth & Universe research team has […]
Jupiter and Saturn carve out gigantic magnetic cavities in the solar wind called magnetospheres. These cavities are filled with plasma originating from the intense volcanic activity of Jupiter’s moon Io […]
Following the success of French contributions to NASA’s Mars rovers, CNES and IRAP are developing a miniaturized version of these instruments for future Mars and Moon missions. If you follow […]