IRF in Uppsala The Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala is situated at Ångströmlaboratoriet and is integrated width the Institution of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University. Central roles Olle Norberg Director General +46 72 581 3394 var em_mt = ‘ma’ +’il’+ ‘to’ + ‘:’; var em0=’o’; var em1=’l’; var em2=’l’; var em3=’e’; var…
IRF in Umeå The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Umeå is situated at Teknikhuset beside Umeå University. Central roles Olle Norberg Director General +46 72 581 3394 var em_mt = ‘ma’ +’il’+ ‘to’ + ‘:’; var em0=’o’; var em1=’l’; var em2=’l’; var em3=’e’; var em4=’.’; var em5=’n’; var em6=’o’; var em7=’r’; var em8=’b’;…
IRF in Kiruna The head office for IRF is located on the Space Campus in Kiruna, about 5 km east of Kiruna by road E10. Central roles Olle Norberg Director General +46 72 581 3394 var em_mt = ‘ma’ +’il’+ ‘to’ + ‘:’; var em0=’o’; var em1=’l’; var em2=’l’; var em3=’e’; var em4=’.’; var em5=’n’;…
2018-11-15 Press release Research to be published today in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth’s magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala are co-authors of the article. The lead author is from the University of New Hampshire in…
The experimental campaign Stratospheric Observations of Noctilucent Clouds (SONC) was conducted on the night of 5-6 July 2018 with the aim of photographing noctilucent clouds (NLC) and studying their large-scale spatial dynamics at scales of 100-1600 kilometres. Noctilucent clouds form as ice particles in the summer mesosphere at heights of 80-85 kilometres, and exhibit large…
Lina Zafer Hadid, a postdoctoral researcher at IRF in Uppsala, has published an article in Physical Review Letters estimating how much energy is transferred from large to small scales in the Earth’s magnetosheath, the boundary between the charged particles coming from the sun and the magnetic bubble that protects our planet. The study, based on…
Despite the absence of a global Earth-like magnetic dipole, the Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind on ion escape from the planet. New research shows this using measurements from the Swedish particle instrument ASPERA-3 on the Mars Express spacecraft. The results have recently been presented in a doctoral thesis…
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna opens up a new destination for its research – and a new partner. In hard competition, the satellite instrument SARA (Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer) proposed by IRF has been selected to fly to the Moon onboard an Indian satellite, Chandrayaan-1. Chandrayaan-1 will be launched at the…
Scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala have published two articles in the September issue of Physical Review Letters, a leading journal for short communications in physics. Both articles are based on data from instruments on board the Cluster satellites. The four satellites were launched in 2000 and are orbiting the Earth…
Mars is bombarded by a flow of protons, electrons and alpha particles from the sun – the solar wind. The solar wind strips away the Martian atmosphere and is presumed to have eroded away much of the water which has been present on the planet. That the acceleration processes that cause the loss of atmosphere…