Sentences with phrase «shielded by a magnetic field»

Such a fierce stellar wind would batter the atmosphere of any planet in the habitable zone, unless that planet was shielded by a magnetic field.

Earth is shielded by a magnetic field that deflects most of the harmful particles, which would otherwise strip away the molecules in its atmosphere.

Not exact matches

A different planet might have some mitigating factors — for example, active geological processes that replenish the atmosphere to a degree, a magnetic field to shield the atmosphere from stripping by the stellar wind, or a larger size that gives more gravity to hold on to the atmosphere.

Likewise, on Mir and the International Space Station, they have largely been shielded by Earth's magnetic field (except in a small, quirky patch of orbit above Brazil known as the South Atlantic Anomaly).

Earth's inhabitants are largely protected from cosmic radiation by the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field, but long - term residents of the moon would be exposed to potential cellular and genetic damage without proper shielding.

Although this article is very much dominated by planetary magnetic fields and their potential shielding effect from CMEs (with limitations), a rather more important and somewhat understated but positive corollary is that there is a specific area for CME generation (as opposed to uniformally about the star) roughly centred onthe stellar Equatorial area.

This allows you to manipulate the quantum potential field discovered by David Bohm and Yakir Aharanov through their experiments in which they shielded the magnetic field, and the electron was still affected, it still moved and phase shifted, through the use of the potentials, which are physically real and usable.

We propose that the cycle may be caused by modulation of cosmic ray (CR) flux by the Solar system vertical oscillation (64 My period) in the galaxy, the galactic north - south anisotropy of CR production in the galactic halo / wind / termination shock (due to the galactic motion toward the Virgo cluster), and the shielding by galactic magnetic fields.

Observation by NASA scientist: One possibility is the movements of Earth's core (where Earth's magnetic field originates) might disturb Earth's magnetic shielding of charged - particle (i.e., cosmic ray) fluxes that have been hypothesized to affect the formation of clouds.

The hypothesis was potentially significant because during the 20th century, the influx of cosmic rays was reduced by a doubling of the sun's magnetic field which shields the Earth from cosmic rays.