Sentences with phrase «magnetic disturbances»

Then, in 2010, a ship passing overhead registered a large magnetic disturbance on the sea floor.

Team member Robert Erdélyi at the University of Sheffield, UK, says that energy is probably channelled in the form of magnetic disturbances called torsional Alfvén waves, which race up the twisted field lines of the tornado to be dissipated as heat in the corona.

Sunspots are huge magnetic disturbances on the surface of the sun, and their presence indicates increased overall activity.

For example, in April 2010, a large magnetic disturbance resulted in a communications failure, causing a satellite to uncontrollably drift in space and presenting a hazard to nearby satellites.

A few years ago, some preliminary observations linked a solar flare to a large magnetic disturbance that seemed to have spiraled up from below the sun's surface.

Sleepy white on the surface, the location is alive with geologic and celestial activity, including tremors, northern lights, and magnetic disturbances — a silent but pervasive bustle.

A MAGNETIC disturbance has been directly observed on a brown dwarf for the first time.