This page contains scientific articles dealing with the physics of Planeterrella. These are essentially articles in English, published in scientific journals with referees.
The following article is in German - (Auf Deutch)
Here is a beautiful experimental approach to the magnetopause, as can also be seen with the Planeterrella.
A beautiful study of plasma instabilities in a Terrella :
In the following article, the Terrella is reduced to a magnet. But physics is rigorously (…)

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This page provides scientific and outreach articles directly related to the Planeterrella
The following article- is a description of the physical experience in French. Jean Lilensten, Mathieu Barthélémy, Cyril Simon, Philippe Jeanjacquot, La Planeterrella, une expérience pédagogique en planétologie et physique des plasmas, Bull. Un. Phys., 102, 799-816, 2008
Here, with several more paragraphs, the description in English Freely downloadable- J. Lilensten, Mathieu Barthélemy, Cyril Simon, (…)

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Students often ask us what are the lines in the emission spectrum of the Planeterrella. Each corresponds to a particular excitation, a transition from an excited state to another state. As in a game in a newspaper, we propose you to try identifying yourself For this, Mr. Barthélémy has acquired the spectrum below that you can download : will you identify the lines* ?
To compare with the auroral spectrum, you can use the one proposed by NCAR (…)

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In 2005, SPICAM (http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-fr/1951-spicam.php) onboard the satellite of the European Space Agency spacecraft Mars Express (http: //sci.esa .int / March-express /) observes ultraviolet radiation of the red planet. By alignment maneuvers that can not be done too often, it also allows to observe the emissions of the atmosphere of Mars, on the black sky. But whenever Mars Express flew over a magnetic anomaly, ie an area where the crustal magnetic field is intense, SPICAM (…)

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