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Zhang, J.; Tian, H.; Zarka, P.; Louis, C. K.; Lu, H.; Gao, D.; Sun, X.; Yu, S.; Chen, B.; Cheng, X.et al.; Wang, K.: Fine Structures of Radio Bursts from Flare Star AD Leo with FAST Observations. The Astrophysical Journal 953, p. 65 (2023)
Wang, W.Y.; Cheng, X.; Ren, Z.N.; Ding, M.D.: Current-sheet Oscillations Caused by the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Loop Top of Solar Flares. Astrophysical Journal Letters 931 (2) (2022)
Li, Z. F.; Cheng, X.; Chen, F.; Chen, J.; Ding, M. D.: Three-dimensional Magnetic and Thermodynamic Structures of Solar Microflares. The Astrophysical Journal 930, p. L7 (2022)
Chitta, L. P.; Priest, E. R.; Cheng, X.: From Formation to Disruption: Observing the Multiphase Evolution of a Solar Flare Current Sheet. The Astrophysical Journal 911 (2), 133 (2021)
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Huang, Z.W.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M.D.: The kinematic evolution of erupting structures in confined solar flares. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 904 (1), L2 (2020)
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The Uranian magnetic field is more expansive than previously thought, according to newly analyzed data from Voyager 2, making it easier to search for moons with oceans.
The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP).
The MPS instruments on board ESA’s JUICE spacecraft have successfully completed their commissioning in space - and delivered their first observational data.
The launch was successful; the ESA’s space probe JUICE is now on its way to the Jupiter system. There, it will primarily study the gas giant's icy moons.
ESA's space probe is on the move: First it heads for the launch site in Kourou - and in April it will begin its long journey to Jupiter and its icy moons.