Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field
Thousands of years ago, Earth’s #magneticfield underwent a significant power surge over a part of the planet that included the ancient kingdom of #Mesopotamia. Signs of the anomaly, including previously unknown details, were preserved in the mud bricks that they baked.
A new study on the origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays using the Cosmicflows-inferred density field of the Local Universe as baseline source distribution
The feature article reports a study of the compression of the remanent lunar magnetic field by the solar wind, based on data taken at several Apollo landing sites.
Now that I have a new home on solarsystem.social, here's a new #introduction!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in France. My research uses the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and geologic evolution. My favorite terrestrial body is the #Moon, but I also work with #Mercury, #Venus, and #Mars. Soon I will need to learn about #Psyche and the icy satellites of #Jupiter!
With the influx of new mastodon users, here's an #introduction so that people can find me!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in Paris, France. My research involves using the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and evolution. Most of my work has been with the #Moon and #Mars, but I also dabble with #Mercury, #Venus, and sometimes the #asteroids and icy satellites of #Jupiter.