The SERPENTINE project is coming to an end in the end of June, 2024. The project has been extremely successful, providing new knowledge on its science questions and delivering tools, catalogues and datasets to its user communities. The project organised…
In Finland every 8th and 9th grade student at the upper comprehensive school does from one to two weeks of work life orientation training called TET. In fall 2023 University of Helsinki Space Physics team hosted two TET trainees. Aaro…
Interplanetary (IP) shock waves are efficient “natural particle accelerators” and fundamental constituents of the heliosphere, where they propagate due to solar activity phenomena such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The SERPENTINE consortium is exploiting the observational window provided by the…
How big is the Sun? What are the consequences of the gigantic plasma clouds that our nearest star unleashes into space? Why do scientists study images of the Sun with all those weird colors? These were among the questions we…
Shock waves and turbulence are ubiquitous in our Universe, where they play a fundamental role in explaining many observed phenomena. In particular, the complex, often spectacular interaction between shocks and plasma turbulence is a very promising pathway leading to the…
An exhaustive multi-spacecraft analysis of the 17 April 2021 event revealed that multiple distinct SEP injections at the Sun played a major role in creating the wide longitudinal spread of solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the inner heliosphere. This points…
One of the core objectives of the SERPENTINE project is to develop and disseminate tools for the advanced analysis and visualisation of heliospheric data. A number of tools have already been released! Examples include the multi-spacecraft longitudinal configuration plotter Solar-MACH,…
