Sentences with phrase «along magnetic lines»

u Also, water in Saturn's rings is rapidly ionized and transported along magnetic lines to certain latitudes on Saturn.

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On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

Witness what physicist Michael Faraday saw in the 19th century, and many a schoolkid has since: iron filings neatly ordering themselves along the lines of a magnetic field,...

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

In 23 fly - bys which passed through Titan's ionosphere or its magnetic tail, CAPS detected measurable quantities of these photoelectrons up to 6.8 Titan radii away from the moon, because they can easily travel along the magnetic field lines.

But when the sun ejects major blasts of particles in flares and solar storms, these belts overflow and send electrons streaming toward Earth along the looping lines of the magnetic field, which intersect the planet near the north and south poles.

The parallel sheets of incoming and outgoing current force the electrons to emit coherent, laserlike radiation at radio wavelengths as they spiral along the planet's magnetic field lines, Ergun says.

This chain acts as a permanent dipole magnet and is able to passively reorient the whole bacteria along the Earth's magnetic field lines.

They occur when charged space particles, typically from the sun, stream along a planet's magnetic field lines and interact with atmospheric atoms, producing not only optical light but also radio emissions.

Since charged particles tend to follow magnetic field lines, moving along them in a sort of corkscrew motion, the gas molecules fly not only outward but also upward and downward along the magnetic field lines.

That's because ions spiral along Jupiter's magnetic field lines, and the lines that loop out to 2 million kilometers pierce the planet's surface at latitudes well away from the poles.

Physicists believe that the explanation lies in giant waves that spread into space along the Sun's magnetic field lines, making them wobble like a washing line yanked hard at one end.

As the pulses approached Earth, the ultralow frequency waves made the planet's magnetic field lines oscillate and accelerated electrons traveling along the field lines to extraordinarily high speeds.

Dr Nicolas Labrosse, lead scientist in the study, explains: «We found that despite how prominences and tornadoes appear in images, the magnetic field is not vertical, and the plasma mostly moves horizontally along magnetic field lines.

While Steve goes through the same large - scale creation process as an aurora, it travels along different magnetic field lines than the aurora.

The current travels along magnetic field lines which converge in a circle around the poles.

This channel is especially good at showing coronal loops - the arcs extending off of the Sun where plasma moves along magnetic field lines.

On Earth, those particles stream along magnetic field lines to form thin layers in the atmosphere.

Within the black center of a sunspot, called its umbra, the sun's magnetic field pierces the surface along vertical lines.

Our results show not only the magnetic field orientation of around young stellar objects but also the structure of circumstellar matter such as outflow regions and their parent molecular cloud along the line of sight.

A study published in 2014, which also used VANDAM data, found that the material being pulled toward one young star is twisting the magnetic field lines and changing their configuration along the way.

Spicules may also follow along magnetic field lines of the sun, which are made by the movements of gases inside the sun.

In this model, gas in the rotating disk moves outward due to the centrifugal force and then moves upward along the magnetic field lines to form outflows.

In Floors of the Exhibition, 2011, lines of magnetic tape run along the gallery walls creating three distinct elevated architectural drawings of the three theatre spaces used by Welles.

The experimental behavior supports the storm scenario the traveling atmosphere disturbances (TADs) of auroral origin and changes in the thermospheric wind are the main physical mechanisms driving equatorward - directed and vertical winds which in turn move the plasma along the magnetic field lines and raise the ionospheric peak height.

The increased equatorward wind at middle latitudes tends to push the ionosphere higher up along magnetic field lines, where the loss rate is lower.

The charged particles are funneled along the lines of magnetic force, become concentrated where the lines dip in to the Poles.