Does the moon have a bow shock?

The experimental results indicate that a detached bow shock wave does not exist in the vicinity of the moon. Thus the flow condi- tions near the moon do not resemble those near the earth's magnetosphere.

Does the Sun have bow shock?

This solar bow shock was thought to lie at a distance around 230 AU from the Sun – more than twice the distance of the termination shock as encountered by the Voyager spacecraft. However, data obtained in 2012 from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) indicates the lack of any solar bow shock.

What is bow shock in space?

Imagine an object moving at super-sonic speed. This object, as it moves through a medium, causes the material in the medium to pile up, compress, and heat up. The result is a type of shock wave, known as a bow shock.

Is the bow shock visible?

Bow shocks are also a common feature in Herbig Haro objects, in which a much stronger collimated outflow of gas and dust from the star interacts with the interstellar medium, producing bright bow shocks that are visible at optical wavelengths.

Does the Moon have drag?

On the moon, there is no atmosphere -- and therefore no aerodynamic drag to slow the fall of high surface area objects.

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Does the Moon pull on you?

Tides and the Moon

This is because the Earth's gravity is pulling you back down. The Moon has gravity of its own, which pulls the oceans (and us) towards it. The Moon's gravitational pull on us is much weaker than Earth's, so we don't really notice it, but we can see the Moon's effect on the liquid water of the oceans.

Does the Moon push or pull?

The Moon and Earth exert a gravitational pull on each other. On Earth, the Moon's gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out on both the side closest to the Moon and the side farthest from the Moon. These bulges create high tides. The low points are where low tides occur.

How far is the bow shock from the Sun?

This solar bow shock was thought to lie at a distance around 230 AU from the Sun, more than twice the distance of the termination shock as encountered by the Voyager spacecraft.

What is Saturn's bow shock?

ESA Science & Technology - Saturn's bow shock

While crossing the bow shock on 3 February 2007, Cassini recorded a particularly strong shock (an Alfvén Mach number of approximately 100) under a 'quasi-parallel' magnetic field configuration, during which significant particle acceleration was detected for the first time.

Why is bow shock created?

Bow shocks are shockwaves created when the solar wind blows on a planet's magnetic field. Under quasi-parallel conditions, the planet's magnetic field is roughly pointing toward the shock surface, almost parallel to a vector at right angles to the shock front (red arrow).

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Is Voyager 2 still transmitting?

Voyager 2 has not yet reached interstellar space or exited the heliosphere (bubble of solar plasma). Pioneer 10 and 11 are no longer transmitting science data back to Earth.

Can a shockwave exist in space?

So, shock waves are actually quite common in space. Interplanetary shock waves can occur due to solar flares. 'Bow shocks' are formed by the interaction of the solar wind with planetary magnetospheres.

Can there be a tornado with sun?

Solar tornadoes are made of plasma and shaped by the sun's magnetic field.

Has anything ever fallen into the Sun?

It's the strongest gravitational source around for many light years in every direction, and everything in the Solar System — including planet Earth itself — orbits the Sun. Yet nothing that's ever been launched from Earth, either naturally or artificially, has ever come in contact with the Sun.

Can the Sun spark a fire?

It may sound like an urban myth, but it can and does happen. Fishbowls, jam-jars and even glass door-knobs have been implicated in focusing the sun's rays sufficiently to cause smouldering, followed by a full-scale blaze.

Why can't you step on Saturn?

As a gas giant, Saturn doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either.

Would you be crushed on Saturn?

So, if you tried to walk on this part of Saturn, you would sink through its atmosphere. Saturn's atmosphere is very thick and its pressure increases the deeper you go. After a while, you would stop sinking and unfortunately be crushed by the high pressure deeper in Saturn's atmosphere.

Why can't you stand on Saturn's rings?

Saturn is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium, in both gas and liquid forms. You couldn't stand on Saturn, because there's no solid surface to stand on.

How close can a human get to the Sun before burning?

You can get surprisingly close. The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, and if we think of that distance as a football field, a person starting at one end zone could get about 95 yards before burning up.

How long would it take for the Sun to collapse?

In about 5 billion years, the Sun will start to run out of hydrogen in its core to fuse, and it will begin to collapse.

How close could a ship get to the Sun?

If a spacecraft were to be wrapped up in that kind of shielding, it would get to within 1.3 million miles of the sun. The integrity of the shielding would be compromised well before that, so, theoretically, you could make it to that distance before become fried to death.

Why are there no tides in lakes?

These forces are controlled by the sun and the moon. The oceans, being essentially one massive connected body of water, have tides because they are so vast that they can be significantly moved by gravity. Most lakes are too small for their water to be moved in the same way.

Why doesn't the Moon affect lakes?

Smaller bodies of water, like lakes and pools, don't have noticeable tidal bulges because they lack enough liquid to create pressure that can visibly overcome the pull of Earth's gravity.

Why don't we feel the Moon's gravity?

The Earth's Moon has considerably less mass than the Earth itself. Not only is the Moon smaller than the Earth, but it is only about 60 percent as dense as Earth. Thus, the gravitational attraction on the Moon is much less than it is here on Earth, and a person weighs less on the Moon.