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The return of STEVE: Swarm spies fleeting atmospheric mystery 🧲 💫 🌈
New research sheds more light on one of the upper atmosphere's most intriguing phenomena...
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ESA's Swarm mission
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ESA's Swarm mission
@esa_swarm
@esa's magnetic field mission. The Swarm #EarthExplorer constellation aims to provide the best-ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution.
Joined February 2015
- 🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 In 2010, liquid iron in Earth's molten outer core unexpectedly changed direction deep beneath the Pacific Ocean... Satellites, including Swarm and @esa_cryosat, are investigating what is still a bit of a mystery! 👉esa.int/Applications/O…
00:00 - ESA's Swarm mission reposted
Happy second space birthday, EarthCARE! 🚀🎂 To celebrate, here are five incredible insights from our second year in orbit 🌀 earth.esa.int/eogateway/succ…
- Exciting! 🧲🛰️✅ Mission success for Smile. Following lift-off on Vega-C at 05:52 CEST, separation at 06:48 CEST and solar panels deployment at 06:49 CEST, Smile is now underway to study Earth’s magnetic shield. 🔗 esa.int/Science_Explor… @esascience @ESA_transport @CNES @Avio_Group
00:00 - ESA's Swarm mission reposted
SWARM team at #EGU26 🛰️ presenting the latest mission results and activities. 🎤 @RobertaForte15 presenting the SWARM contribution 📌 Opening slide of the presentation 🛰️ @LedaQamili presenting the “Swarm after 12 years in orbit” poster 💬 Great discussions throughout the session
- 🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 Geomagnetic night vision in birds?! 🐦⬛🤖🔦 Swarm really does cover everything 😍💅 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🖼️ Sedat Ağbaş / Pexels
- 🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 Space magnetometry: mapping Earth’s magnetic field with satellites Nils Olsen on why, despite their limitations, platform magnetometers on satellites like @esa_cryosat are a valuable supplement to dedicated missions 🔗link.springer.com/article/10.118…
00:00 - Multi-Step Geospace Storm Now there's a dance to add to Swarm's repertoire! 🩰💃 Comparative Study of the “Ionosphere-Thermosphere” System Response in Nov '23 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- Response of the Ionospheric Electron Temperature Over Sanya to the Super Geomagnetic Storm of May 2024 🔗agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102… 📸 J. Schmidt
- Quiet-Time Rapid Subauroral Plasma Flows at High Northern Magnetic Latitudes in the Dusk Sector Preprint 🔗preprints.org/manuscript/202… 📸 Steve and the Milky Way. Krista Trinder
- Toward a Dynamic Model for Topside Ionospheric Irregularities: Spherical Harmonic Decomposition 🎛️ 🔗agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…
- ESA's Swarm mission reposted
🚨 Abstract deadline extension 🚨 ⏰ New deadline: 17 April 2026 Submit your abstract here 👉 nikal.eventsair.com/4d-ionosphere/… Workshop info here 👉 nikal.eventsair.com/4d-ionosphere/
- 🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲🧲 Magnetic Monday 🧲 Electrodynamics of Earth’s magnetic field ⚡️🧲 This paper delves into the mathematics using data from @esa_swarm , CryoSat and other sources. Preprint 🔗arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14217
