Sentences with phrase «of magnetopause»

The magnitude of electric field in the atmosphere is proportional to the nearness of magnetopause to the Earth..

However, it should be noted that the significance of magnetopause reconnection at Saturn is under debate (Masters et al. 2012).

Cassini UVIS observations revealed recently the presence of small - scale structures in the dayside main auroral emissions indicative of magnetopause Kelvin - Helmholtz instabilities, which are key elements of the solar wind - magnetosphere viscous interaction (Grodent et al. 2011).

Moreover, recent studies indicated that reconnection has a less important role at Saturn than at the Earth, in large - scale transport near the subsolar region of the magnetopause (Lai et al. 2012).

Recently, it was suggested that only a limited fraction of the magnetopause surface could become open (Masters et al. 2012).

Not exact matches

Using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission, Raeder and his Ph.D. student Shiva Kavosi (lead author) found that Kelvin - Helmholtz waves actually occur 20 percent of the time at the magnetopause and can change the energy levels of our planet's radiation belts.

As the MMS team reports today in Science, instead of the turbulent swirling of electrons that some theorists had predicted, researchers found that the electrons moved in a more concerted way, meandering back and forth across the magnetopause.

On the other hand, Cassini plasma and magnetic field observations revealed signatures of reconnection at Saturn's magnetopause (McAndrews et al. 2008).

Alternatively to solar wind driven reconnection, the viscous interaction of the solar wind with the planetary magnetosphere, which involves magnetic reconnection on a small scale (Delamere & Bagenal 2013), influences Saturn's magnetopause dynamics.

If the Sun's magnetic field tilts south near the magnetopause, it can partially cancel Earth's magnetic field at the point of contact.

This explains the presence of reservoirs of high - energy particles under these areas in the magnetopause but for some time scientists remained puzzled as to why these reservoirs are also found in areas where the two magnetic fields at the magnetopause are aligned and should therefore create an impenetrable barrier.

Auroras are a consequence of the solar wind penetrating the magnetopause when magnetic reconnection occurs.

Feynman andRuzmaikin (1999) found that, «the intensity of cosmic rays incident on the magnetopause has decreased markedly during this century,» i.e., the twentieth century (and also that, «the pattern of cosmic ray precipitation through the magnetosphere to the upper troposphere has also changed.»

Taking the earths magnetopause into account, there is no evidence that carbon changes the amount of energy contained within it.