NASA Experiment to Track Space ‘Doughnut’ Encircling Earth 🌑

#ColumbusModule #GeomagneticStorm #Heliophysics #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #Magnetosphere #Moon #NeutralAtomImaging

⏩ 4 new pictures and 3 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=12&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260502130226

✨🔭 Interesting news from outer space: #Cassini data plus global #MHD #simulations show that #Saturn’s cusp is not noon-centered like #Earth’s, but shifted toward the post-noon and even post-dusk sector. Xu, Yao, & Arridge et al. identify 67 cusp events and argue that rapid rotation plus internal #plasma sources fundamentally reshape Saturn’s global magnetic topology:

📝 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69666-9

#SpacePhysics #PlanetaryScience #Magnetosphere