Sentences with phrase «aimed by magnetic fields»
Naval researchers, Manheimer recounts, attempted to use plasma antenna technology aimed by magnetic fields to create a more precise «agile mirror» array.
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THE PROBLEM Earth's magnetic field sculpts the dancing lights of the aurora borealis, aims compass needles, and most crucially, protects us from potentially lethal particles spewed by the sun.
Physicists aim to solve this mystery by mapping the coronal loops: streams of hot, glowing plasma that follow magnetic field lines...
The dramatic findings complement NASA's Juno mission this summer which aims to understand the relationship between the two biggest structures in the solar system — the region of space controlled by Jupiter's magnetic field (i.e. its magnetosphere) and that controlled by the solar wind.
These proposed devices, like their predecessors, aim to cancel gravity by wrapping an object in superconducting coils to generate a magnetic field so strong that it warps space.
The aim was to test the prospects of generating electricity by dragging the cable through the Earth's magnetic field.
Researchers produce such heating by aiming microwaves at the electrons gyrating around magnetic field lines — a process that increases the thermal energy of the electrons, transfers it to the ions through collisions, and supplements the heating of the ions by neutral beam injection.