View Single Post
  #15 (permalink)  
Old 19-May-2008, 03:35 PM
tusenfem's Avatar
tusenfem tusenfem is online now
Moderator
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Graz, Austria
Posts: 3,287
Send a message via Yahoo to tusenfem
Default

Okay, you mean slight magnetization of the crust of the moon, not a dipolar field.

But how can there be a magnetic(?) link between the moon and the Earth, when the moon is most of the times outside of the Earth's bow shock and thus only interacting with solar wind magnetic field?

Also, I think everyone now agrees that Venus has no internal magnetic field and the whole magnetosphere is created by draped field lines from the solar wind. There could be slight surface anomalies just like at Mars, but that will be all (although the surface temperature of Venus may be above the Curie point, destroying any anomalies). In a couple of months the periapsis of VEX will be lowered and we will get even closer to the surface.
__________________

Any comments in glorious red are to be considered in ModeratorMode.


善數, 不用籌策 (shàn shù, bù yòng chóu cè)
He who is good at counting, uses no counting tools
“A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is”
道德經, 二十七 (dào dé jīng, 27)