The Interaction of Solar Wind with Jupiter’s Magnetosphere |Chapter 1 | Current Research Progress in Physical Science Vol. 2

This chapter presents the effects of the solar wind on Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Using the Michigan Solar Wind Model (mSWiM) solar wind data propagated to Jupiter from 1997 to 2016. This dataset was used to characterize the solar wind parameters that can affect Jupiter’s magnetosphere. For this purpose, the Interplanetary fast shocks: Forward shocks (FS), Reverse shocks (RS), and solar wind dynamic pressure were obtained and analyzed during the apparent opposition periods. The main finding highlights that the fast forward (FS) shocks were predominant during this period and the solar wind dynamic pressure from FS and RS shocks follows the solar cycles 23 and 24. It shows how solar activity and specifically the solar wind affect planetary magnetosphere dynamics.

 

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Jenny M. Rodríguez-Gómez
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA and The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA.

 

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A New Hypothesis on the Origin of Water on Earth and Mars | Chapter 8 | Challenging Issues on Environment and Earth Science Vol. 3

 The origin of water on Earth is still a scientific and accurate question that has yet to be resolved. Water in liquid or gaseous form could not have existed on the young, red-hot Earth, it is certain. As a result, it is widely thought that comets carried water to Earth. However, the isotope ratio (H/D) of water on comets is more than twice that of water on Earth, implying that comets may have provided only a portion of Earth's water. The stable bipolar magnetic field that protects the Earth from the solar wind – a plasma wave of protons and electrons – was created only less than one billion years ago, according to laboratory experiments at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Recent laboratory experiments at the University of Maryland in the United States have shown that the young Earth must have had a multipolar magnetic field during its early age, when its centre of iron and nickel was still molten. This multipolar magnetic field, on the other hand, may not have offered any defence against the solar wind. In reality, it would have served as a massive solar wind collector, and the same could be said for our neighbouring planet Mars. As a result of these two scientific studies, an entirely new theory about the origin of water on Earth and Mars has emerged. The solar wind would have been able to penetrate the thick, Venus-like carbon dioxide atmospheres of Earth and Mars along the vertical magnetic field lines during the early periods of the two planets. The atmosphere would have been exposed to the young Sun's powerful ultraviolet rays and intense solar wind, which would have separated the carbon dioxide molecules in the atmosphere into their component parts of oxygen and carbon due to the absence of an ozone layer. The oxygen released would have been able to interact with the solar wind's hydrogen nuclei to form water molecules, which would then fall as rain.

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Hans Merkl
Johannes-Kepler-Polytechnikum, Engineer Academy, Am Kirchsteig 4, 92637 Weiden, Regensburg, Germany.

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Patterns in Solar Variability, Their Planetary Origin, and Terrestrial Impacts: New Perspective | Chapter 10 | Theory and Applications of Physical Science Vol. 4

This is the Preface of the Special Issue of Pattern Recognition in Physics published in 2013, here reprinted with some modifications and updating. We hope that by the arguments and facts presented in this volume, we have lifted “the planetary hypothesis” to the level of a “planetary theory” and we even foresee that it will lead to a new paradigm on planetary–solar–terrestrial interaction. We are well aware of the fact that there is much more to learn and improve, but we trust the theory is here to stay. The volume consists of 12 independent papers. Several papers have addressed the question about the evolution of climate during the 21st century. Obviously, we are on our way into a new grand solar minimum. This sheds serious doubts on the issue of a continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCC projects.

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Nils-Axel Mörner 
Department of Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Roger Tattersall
Tallbloke, Wordpress, Leeds, UK.

Jan-Erik Solheim
Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

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