News tagged with magnetic storms
Early warning system would predict space storms on Mars
Space weather storms will make living on Mars challenging. The first group of colonists won't need umbrellas; they will need safe houses with 30-foot thick walls made of Martian clay that can withstand radiation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Shocking recipe for making killer electrons (w/ Video)
Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Oldest measurement of Earth's magnetic field reveals battle between Sun and Earth for our atmosphere
Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the Earth's magnetic field 3.5 billion years ago was only half as strong as it is today, and that this weakness, coupled with a strong wind of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2010 |
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A New View of Coronal Waves
(PhysOrg.com) -- The corona is the hot outer region of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is threaded by magnetic fields that loop and twist upwards from the sun's surface, driven by motions of its dense atmosphere.
Dec 11, 2009 |
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New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377 000 km ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)
On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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