Sentences with phrase «magnetic shield»

Although there were moments when the planet's magnetic shields held firm, it spent far more time with weak shields than strong shields.

As the Sun dims magnetic shielding of the atmosphere is diminished and more cosmic rays reach the atmosphere.

For a glimpse of what Earth might be like without its protective magnetic shield, we have only to look at the lifeless surfaces of worlds with anemic magnetic fields, like Mars and Venus.

African intensity data or independent estimates of regional differences in magnetic shielding are required to confirm or revise these observations.

Winglee believes that if a satellite or spacecraft could inflate around itself a bubble - shaped magnetic shield as big as 25 miles in diameter, it could zip through space.

The answers could lead to a better appreciation of Earth's magnetic shield as well.

One of the problems standing in the way of Mars habitation has been addressed in an intriguing way by NASA's Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green, who proposed an artificial magnetic shield to protect the Red Planet from high - energy solar particles.

Numerical simulations performed by the GRAPES - 3 collaboration on this event indicate that the Earth's magnetic shield temporarily cracked due to the occurrence of magnetic reconnection, allowing the lower energy galactic cosmic ray particles to enter our atmosphere.

«It is only if the pressure is sufficiently low,» he said, «and if the exoplanet has a reasonably strong magnetic shield like that of the Earth's magnetosphere, that the exoplanet can retain an atmosphere and has the potential for habitability.»

NIST physicist Dave Howe aligns a laser beam to pass through a tiny glass cell of rubidium atoms inside the cylindrical magnetic shield.

This should allow the production of superconducting parts for electric motors, or of specially shaped magnetic shielding devices.

In addition to reducing its size, researchers expect to improve its performance by adding magnetic shielding and antireflection coating.

Ruth Bamford of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, and colleagues have now shown how such magnetic fields might work, which could help spaceship builders devise magnetic shielding to protect astronauts from harmful radiation.

But European scientists are developing a potential answer — a superconducting magnetic shield that would protect astronauts, in a fashion similar to those force fields in science fiction movies and novels.

Sky Force Anniversary allows players to choose between various types of weapons, passive skills and power - ups, starting from the impenetrable magnetic shield and ending with the mighty mega-bomb that annihilates all visible enemies with a huge blast.

The Qi specification mandates thermal testing of wireless chargers and mandates effective magnetic shielding of the battery to minimize heating of the battery and mobile phone.

The cover must provide adequate magnetic shielding (to make sure the battery will not get hot) and the smartphone cover must measure the received power accurately (to make it possible for the wireless charger to detect undesirable energy losses caused by heating of objects in the vicinity of the wireless charger).

For a glimpse of what Earth might be like without its protective magnetic shield, we have only to look at the lifeless surface of a world like Venus

One of the problems standing in the way of Mars habitation has been addressed in an intriguing way by NASA's Planetary Science Division Director Jim Green, who proposed an artificial magnetic shield to protect the Red Planet from high - energy solar...

«Reconnection strips away some of our magnetic shield and lets energy leak in, giving us large, violent storms.

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet's protective magnetic shield.

«Earth's magnetic shield is much older than previously thought: An older geomagnetic field suggests an early start to plate tectonics.»

The swirls would remain brighter than the surrounding soil because of those magnetic shields.

The sun spews energetic particles that can pry life - sustaining molecules from our atmosphere, but Earth's magnetic shield, which originates from the planet's hot core of churning, liquid iron, shoos those particles away.

The GRAPES - 3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth's magnetic shield.

«Crack discovered in Earth's magnetic shield.»

A CHANCE sighting of a tear in the Earth's magnetic shield has led to what astronomers are claiming is the first empirical proof to end a 50 - year - old debate about how space weather causes polar auroras and disrupts satellite communication systems.

When the Apollo crew members, pictured above performing prelaunch tests on Earth, ventured to the moon between 1968 and 1972, they exited a magnetic shield around Earth called the magnetosphere, which protects us from cosmic radiation.

«The spot in the atmosphere represents the footprint of the crack in the magnetic shield,» he says.

Charged particles from the sun stream through a rift in Earth's magnetic shield, sparking a bright spot of aurora in ultraviolet light (foreground).

In the space outside of Earth's magnetic shielding, astronauts will be vulnerable to the Sun's periodic belches of plasma and high - energy radiation.

This means the effectiveness of the magnetic shield has been reduced as a result of the bending and subsequent distortion of the flux lines from the increased speed of up to 40 km annually.If this movement is the beginning of the long 5k to 8k year cycle of pole reversal, than it could be expected that during any of these cycles, solar forcing would have a greater effect with increased energy passing through into the atmosphere.

Factors such as the sizes of the planet and the star, continental distribution, ocean depth, the amount of water present, tectonic activity, variability of the surface temperature, atmospheric composition, the magnetic shield, speed of rotation, axial tilt, eccentricity of the orbit, the type and amount of radiation received, the age of the solar system, and the possibility of panspermia within the system are all considered.

In a talk entitled, «A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration» given at the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the sun at a position known as the Mars L1 Lagrange Point.

Flying Battery Zone, for example, will give the ability to completely change how gravity works, flipping Sonic upside - down by using the magnetic shield.

The Green Hill Zone begins almost identically to how it did back in 1991, until suddenly you notice one of Sonic 3's magnetic shields in place of Sonic 1's standard force field, and the corkscrew loops from Sonic 2's Emerald Hill Zone are at play.

It also might not hurt to conduct some cost - assessments of this magnetic shield.

At present day, it is well known that magnetic shielding is weak in the southern Atlantic region, the so - called South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), with important implications, e.g., for space weather influences on spacecraft (Heirtzler 2002).