A recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal examines how helicopters equipped with a magnetometer could be used to conduct magnetic field investigations within the crust of Mars, providing important insights into the present characteristics and early evolution of the red planet.
Artist illustration of how a magnetic field could have looked on ancient Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltechexamines how helicopters equipped with a magnetometer could be used to conduct magnetic field investigations within the crust of Mars, providing important insights into the present characteristics and early evolution of the red planet.
"A planet's global magnetic field is driven by vigorously convecting iron in the core and is thus an expression of what is happening deep inside a planet," Dr. Anna Mittelholz, who is a Daly Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University and lead author of the study, tells Universe Today.
"You can think of the problem as, for example, a big, magnetized magma chamber in the subsurface," Dr. Mittelholz tells Universe Today."With a helicopter, one measures a magnetic field signature flying across it but likely not covering all of it. Now we attempt to go from data collected along the path to building a model on how the subsurface looks like."
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