Sentences with phrase «plasma particles»

Large space - weather events, such as geomagnetic storms, can alter the incoming radio waves — a distortion that scientists can use to determine the concentration of plasma particles in the upper atmosphere.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

It will measure magnetic fields and plasma particles as part of a study of the composition of the Martian atmosphere.

Second, it can not be based on a Maxwellian plasma particle distribution, because theory tells us that the plasma radiation losses (Bremsstrahlung) from a very high temperature, Maxwellian, proton - boron plasma will kill the concept.

One of his main achievements was inventing a «magnetic nozzle» that could spray the plasma particles in a high - speed jet.

On an atmospheric scale, he says, plasma particles can behave in a similar way, redistributing throughout the atmosphere to form plumes that «flow through a huge circulation system, with a lot of different consequences.»

These applications require an understanding of energy absorption and momentum transfer from the high - intensity lasers to plasma particles.

Plasma physicists and engineers want the plasma to be under as much magnetic pressure as possible, because high pressure means that the plasma particles are interacting more frequently, increasing both the chances that fusion reactions will occur and the amount of heat produced by the tokamak.

These plasma particles are trapped in Jupiter's strong magnetic field and rotate with the planet's 10 - hour period, much faster than the 2 - day orbital period of Io.