[ad_1] According to a study published in Nature Astronomy journal, the Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft performed its second fly-by of Venus on August 10, 2021. The fleeting visit of the ESA/JAXA mission “provided a short-lived observation of its induced magnetosphere“. What is induced magnetosphere: Unlike Earth, Venus does not generate an magnetic field in its core. The planet is rather surrounded by “a weak, comet-shaped induced magnetosphere”, Phys.org explained in…
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