Sentences with phrase «auroral storms»

The UVIS images, which are also being analyzed by team associate Aikaterini Radioti at the University of Liege, Belgium, also suggest that one way the bright auroral storms may be produced is by the formation of new connections between magnetic field lines.

Not exact matches

That storm produced spectacular auroral displays but caused no outages.

Magnetic storms recorded as auroral sightings in Meigetsuki («The Record of the Clear Moon,» ca 1180 - 1241) by Fujiwara no Teika of Japan, and in Song Shi («History of Song,» commissioned 1343) from China, have given researchers the ability to reconstruct a chronology of past astronomical events.

At times of maximum solar activity, the magnetic ferment represented by sunspots frequently releases and leaps across space to Earth — to foment magnetic storms that disrupt communications networks and light the polar skies with auroral displays.

A strong auroral display, characteristic of a space storm, followed less than three minutes later.

In addition to brilliant auroral displays, the electric telegraph - the Victorian internet — was found to be disrupted during periods with large geomagnetic storms.

The intensive particle fluxes in the magnetosphere plasma sheet during the CME - driven storms penetrate into the auroral zone and produce the famous auroras.

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.

Alberto Adriani, a co-investigator for Juno's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) and lead author of the paper, explained that the storms are likely the result of Jupiter's heat and rotation speed.