Sentences with word «magnetotail»

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.

This rotation, coupled with an ever - changing solar wind magnetic field, creates an extremely dynamic Martian magnetotail.

Since the Martian magnetotail is formed by linking surface magnetic fields to solar wind fields, ions in the Martian upper atmosphere have a pathway to space if they flow down the magnetotail.

«We found that Mars» magnetic tail, or magnetotail, is unique in the solar system,» said Gina DiBraccio of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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.

Like a stretched rubber band suddenly snapping to a new shape, magnetic reconnection also releases energy, which could actively propel ions in the Martian atmosphere down the magnetotail into space.

«It's not like the magnetotail found at Venus, a planet with no magnetic field of its own, nor is it like Earth's, which is surrounded by its own internally generated magnetic field.

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.

«Our model predicted that magnetic reconnection will cause the Martian magnetotail to twist 45 degrees from what's expected based on the direction of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind,» said DiBraccio.

Since Mars has a patchwork of surface magnetic fields, scientists had suspected that the Martian magnetotail would be a complex hybrid between that of a planet with no magnetic field at all and that found behind a planet with a global magnetic field.

MAVEN's orbit continually changes its orientation with respect to the Sun, allowing measurements to be made covering all of the regions surrounding Mars and building up a map of the magnetotail and its interaction with the solar wind.

When the moon passes out of view of the sun, it is in the region where the Earth's magnetic field stretches out onto space, away from the sun (this is called the magnetotail).

This misalignment also means that Uranus» magnetotail — the part of the magnetosphere that trails behind the planet, away from the Sun — is twisted into a long corkscrew.

This magnetotail is a reservoir that traps charged particles, he says.

The night side of the terrestrial magnetosphere forms a structured magnetotail, consisting of a plasma sheet at low latitudes that is sandwiched between two regions called the magnetotail lobes.

Elin Eriksson, Cluster / MMS investigations of particle acceleration in 3D during magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail.

Mapping Earth's complex magnetosphere has also led to new insights about the dynamics of what is known at the magnetotail — the region of the magnetosphere that extends beyond the Earth, away from the Sun.

On Earth's nightside, magnetic reconnection happens in the magnetotail, where magnetic flux tubes originally disconnected on the dayside are reconnected.

The magnetosphere is compressed on the dayside and stretched out into a long «magnetotail» on the nightside by interaction with the solar wind.