Sentences with phrase «scale magnetic reconnections»
When magnetic field lines reconnect, they release energy; some researchers suspect that fine - scale magnetic reconnections above the sun's surface provide the energy to heat the corona.
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«We're able to probe very small scales and this helps us to really pinpoint how energy is being converted through magnetic reconnection,» Argall said.
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.