Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

First year of Energetic Particle Measurements with EPD aboard Solar Orbiter

authored by Javier Rodríguez-Pacheco, edited by Luke Barnard April 22, 2021

An artists impression of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft

Artists impression of Solar Orbiter. Copyright: ESA/ATG medialab

One year ago, the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Sun observing spacecraft Solar Orbiter (SolO) was launched starting a long-awaited journey. SolO (Figure 1) will provide both in-situ and remote sensing measurements in the inner Heliosphere and EPD will contribute particularly to the latter ones. EPD consists of four sensors that share the s ...[Read More]

Meet the Experts: The future of solar terrestrial research

Eleanna Asvestari April 21, 2021

Every year at the EGU General Assembly renowned experts from the field of Solar-Terrestrial research get together to give inspirational talks and to meet with early career scientists. This year’s “Meet the Experts” session is focusing on the future of solar terrestrial research. To think of the future, we first have a look at the past, and more precisely on the knowledge acquired with over half a ...[Read More]

So… Who Cares about Switchbacks?

Nathan Schwadron April 19, 2021

Explaining the Mysterious Plethora of Short Magnetic Field Reversals Observed by Parker Solar Probe and their Relation to the Origin of Solar Wind. In Switchbacks Explained: Super-Parker Fields – the Other Side of the Sub-Parker Spiral, N. A. Schwadron and D. J. McComas provide a simple geometric explanation for the source of “switchbacks” and associated large and one-sided transverse flows in the ...[Read More]