So sample is finally set up and running, so I can listen to a lecture by Prof Dougherty on the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, If you could see the magnetosphere of Jupiter is would be bigger than the sun in the sky.

Prof Doughtey has been involved in magnetometer instruments on spacecrafts for a long time - was part of the team that discovered how active the tiny moon Enceladus is

I’m fully on board with her call that it’s time to characterise our habitable worlds - she’sof course calling for landers for Europa and Titan, but I’m part of the effort to do lab work to understand the materials there

Really interestingly, she has said that @esa’s upcoming JUICE mission will avoid Io in its orbit about Jupiter - too hazardous an as it spills out charged particles that get accelerated by Jupiter’s magnetic field