EAN: 9783319642918

MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM GEBUNDEN

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 andanalysis  computer simulations of planetary interiors and dynamos  models
of solar wind interaction  measurement of ancient terrestrial rocks and meteorites  and
laboratory investigations.

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