Sentences with phrase «field lines reconnect»
When magnetic field lines reconnect, they release energy; some researchers suspect that fine - scale magnetic reconnections above the sun's surface provide the energy to heat the corona.
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Yellow lines represent magnetic field lines from the Sun carried by the solar wind, blue lines represent Martian surface magnetic fields, white sparks are reconnection activity, and red lines are reconnected magnetic fields that link the surface to space via the Martian magnetotail.
The activity twisted and contorted lines in the sun's magnetic field until they snapped and reconnected, triggering giga - lightning bolts that showered Earth's satellites 93 million miles away with X-rays and gamma rays.
In 2015, NASA launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft to study the mysterious interactions between Earth and the solar wind when our planet's magnetic field lines occasionally break and reconnect, which also affects auroral activity.
«The hyperbolic flux tube breaks the filament's magnetic field lines and reconnects them with those of the ambient Sun, so that the filament's magnetic energy is stripped away,» Chintzoglou said.
The data suggest that in the chromosphere magnetic field lines break and reconnect to generate the heat and drive the electrons up into the loops, Aschwanden says.
In these places, the magnetic field lines can continuously reconnect while slipping and flipping around each other.
Magnetic reconnection, in which the magnetic field lines in plasma snap apart and violently reconnect, creates massive eruptions of plasma from the sun.