Sentences with phrase «how magnetic reconnection»

«We believe that this is an important piece of the puzzle for understanding how magnetic reconnection works, how charged particles are accelerated, and how particles from different regions can be mixed with each other,» says Daniel Graham.

These new results are key to understanding how magnetic reconnection can send particles zooming toward Earth, where they can initiate auroras and cause space weather.

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They plan to examine data from other instruments on MAVEN to see if escaping particles map to the same regions where they see reconnected magnetic fields to confirm that reconnection is contributing to Martian atmospheric loss and determine how significant it is.

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«We're able to probe very small scales and this helps us to really pinpoint how energy is being converted through magnetic reconnection,» Argall said.

Due to launch in late 2014, MMS will investigate how the sun and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, explosively transferring energy from one to the other — a fundamental physical process that occurs throughout the universe, known as magnetic reconnection.