Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the ...
From navigation to solar weather forecasting, many different areas of research require space-based sensors to measure Earth's magnetic field as accurately as possible at any given moment. So far, ...
An imperfect diamond is perfect for sensing Earth’s magnetic field from space. A quantum device used a diamond’s defects to map Earth’s magnetic field from the International Space Station. Just 10 ...