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The magnetic reconnection process also might propel some of Mars» atmosphere into space.
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The team found that a process called «magnetic reconnection» must have a big role in creating the Martian magnetotail because, if reconnection were occurring, it would put the twist in the tail.
According to the new work, Mars» magnetotail is formed when magnetic fields carried by the solar wind join with the magnetic fields embedded in the Martian surface in a process called magnetic reconnection.
The way reconnection disturbs terrestrial power grids is complex but, in essence, the process mimics what happens in electric generators, where a fluctuating magnetic field (usually a moving magnet) produces a current in a coil of wire, says Adam Szabo, director of NASA's Heliophysics Laboratory.
According to him, some storms are most troublesome because of a process called magnetic reconnection, in which the magnetic field of the CME interacts directly with the Earth's magnetic field.
Just like that, a flotilla of NASA spacecraft has plumbed one of the deeper mysteries of space physics: what causes «magnetic reconnection,» the process that allows energy from the sun's magnetic field to leak into Earth's, triggering potentially damaging space weather.
To see whether these are generated by the same process as happens on the sun — the breaking and reconnection of magnetic fields (pictured above)-- astronomers studied light from 100,000 stars using China's Guo Shouiing Telescope.
«One idea is that the process of magnetic reconnection on the night side of Earth causes a build - up of «trapped» hot plasma in the higher latitude lobes.»
«We found that the energetic plasma signatures occur on high - latitude magnetic field lines that have been «closed» by the process of magnetic reconnection, which then causes the plasma to become relatively hot,» says Dr Fear.
But sometimes, the sun's magnetic field lines can directly link up with Earth's in a process called magnetic reconnection, which opens up cracks in the magnetosphere.
Eventually a process called magnetic reconnection destabilizes the fields, resulting in the explosive release of the stored energy we see as a flare.
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.
When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.
When the solar wind carries CMEs and other powerful bursts of radiation into a planet's magnetic field, it can cause the magnetic field on the back side to press together, a process known as magnetic reconnection.
Other projects launched during Prager's tenure include a new facility to investigate magnetic reconnection, an explosive process that is found throughout the universe; a plasma nanotechnology laboratory, and fledgling activities in mass separation using ideas from plasma physics.