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Evidence of an Extended Alfvén Wing System at Enceladus: Cassini's Multi‐Instrument Observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract We report in situ evidence for Enceladus' Alfvén wing system and its coupling with Saturn's ionosphere, based on multi‐instrument observations from the Cassini spacecraft. Analysis of 36 events, including 13 from non‐flyby paths, confirms the existence of a Main Alfvén Wing (MAW) current system generated at Enceladus, and associated Reflected ...
L. Z. Hadid, T. Chust, J.‐E. Wahlund, M. W. Morooka, E. Roussos, O. Witasse, J. Rabia, D. Pisa, K. Kim, N. J. T. Edberg, A. M. Rymer, L. Lamy, S. Kotsiaros, S. Aizawa, A. Jeandet, R. Modolo, N. André, P. Canu, C. F. Bowers, X. Jia, A. J. Coates, G. H. Jones, A. Parsec‐Wallis, O. Agiwal, M. K. G. Holmberg, Q. Nénon, H. Cao, W. S. Kurth, M. K. Dougherty   +28 more
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Limits on the Density of the Lunar Ionosphere: ARTEMIS Observations

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The Moon of our Earth has a tenuous atmosphere, known as an exosphere. The ionization of this exosphere is speculated to possibly form a weak ionosphere.
Han-Wen Shen, Jasper S. Halekas, Andrew R. Poppe   +2 more
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The MgI line: a new probe of the atmospheres of evaporating exoplanets

, 2014
Transit observations of HD209458b in the UV revealed signatures of neutral magnesium escaping the planet's upper atmosphere. The absorption detected in the MgI line provides unprecedented information on the physical conditions at the altitude where the ...
Bourrier, V., Etangs, A. Lecavelier des, Vidal-Madjar, A.   +2 more
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Reconnaissance of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system in the Lyman-$\alpha$ line [PDF]

, 2017
The TRAPPIST-1 system offers the opportunity to characterize terrestrial, potentially habitable planets orbiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star. We performed a four-orbit reconnaissance with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph onboard the Hubble ...
Bolmont, E., Bourrier, V., Burgasser, A. J., de Wit, J., Ehrenreich, D., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., Queloz, D., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Wheatley, P. J.   +9 more
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Ozone Production by Electron Irradiation of Regolith Ice: Laboratory Study for the Icy Moons

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract We irradiate fine‐grained regolith pure water ice in ultra high vacuum with 5keV $5\,\text{keV}$ and 10keV $10\,\text{keV}$ electrons to study the radiolysis of water ice. The ice regolith is designed to closely mimic the physical characteristics of the surfaces of the icy moons of the Solar System.
Lorenzo Obersnel, André Galli, Rico G. Fausch, Rafael Ottersberg, Peter Wurz   +4 more
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BepiColombo at Mercury: Three Flybys, Three Magnetospheres

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 2, 28 January 2026.
Abstract We examine the first three BepiColombo Mercury flybys Using data from the Miniature Ion Precipitation Analyzer (MIPA), an ion mass analyzer in the Search for Exospheric Refilling and Natural Abundances package on the Mercury Planetary Orbiter designed to study magnetospheric dynamics.
Hayley N. Williamson, Stas Barabash, Hans Nilsson, Martin Wieser, Jim M. Raines, Anna Milillo, Ali Varsani, Alessandro Aronica, Elisabetta DeAngelis, Yoshifumi Futaana, Daniel Heyner, Adrian Kazakov, Stefano Livi, Stefano Orsini, Kristin Pump, Daniel Schmid, Manabu Shimoyama   +16 more
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The LimPa mission: a small mission proposal to characterize the enigmatic lunar dust exosphere

Earth, Planets and Space
The lunar environment is known to be characterized by complex interactions between plasma, the exosphere, dust, and the surface. However, our understanding of the environment is limited due to the lack of experimental evidence.
Yoshifumi Futaana, Esa Kallio, Olli Knuuttila, Leo Nyman, Manabu Shimoyama, Stas Barabash   +5 more
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Small meteoroids’ major contribution to Mercury’s exosphere [PDF]

Icarus, 2014
The contribution of the meteoroid population to the generation of Mercury's exosphere is analyzed to determine which segment contributes most greatly to exospheric refilling via the process of meteoritic impact vaporization. For the meteoroid data, a differential mass distribution based on work by Grün et al.
E B, Grotheer, S A, Livi
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Multi‐Species Energy‐Banded Ions in the Ionosphere During the 21 January 2005 Magnetic Storm: Low‐Altitude Edge of the Warm Plasma Cloak

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract During the 21–22 January 2005 magnetic storm, the FAST satellite observed warm (< few keV) ions in discrete energy bands on the dayside at ∼3,000 km altitude for more than 6.5 hr. We suggest that the ionospheric energy‐banded ions represent the low‐altitude edge of the warm plasma cloak observed simultaneously by magnetospheric satellites ...
J. U. Kozyra, M. W. Liemohn, C. A. Cattell, J. Dombeck, C. P. Escoubet, M. Thomsen, G. Lu, D. J. Knipp, L. J. Paxton, R. M. Skoug, H. A. Elliott, A. J. Davis, L. Rastaetter, D. DeZeeuw, C. Colpitts   +14 more
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Comparison of terrestrial exospheric hydrogen 3D distributions at solar minimum and maximum using TWINS Lyman-α observations

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Remote sensing observations of far-ultraviolet (FUV) emissions have been used to estimate 3D neutral hydrogen (H) density models of the terrestrial exosphere under solar minimum (2008) and solar maximum (2013 and 2015) conditions.
Jochen H. Zoennchen, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Lara Waldrop, Hans J. Fahr   +4 more
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