Sentences with phrase «when magnetic reconnection»
They discovered that the lobe, an area of the magnetosphere which is usually filled with cold, unenergetic, plasma, does in some cases fill up with hot plasma when magnetic reconnection occurs on the night side of the Earth, thus closing the field lines and trapping the plasma within.
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Auroras are a consequence of the solar wind penetrating the magnetopause when magnetic reconnection occurs.
When magnetic reconnection occurs between two clouds of plasma that have the same density, the exhaust flow is wildly unstable — flapping about like a garden hose with too much water pressure.
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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.
«When the CME's magnetic field has a big southward component, there is a high probability of reconnection,» Gombosi explains.
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.
When a current runs through the magnetic field lines, they snap shut and pinch off, a process called magnetic reconnection, essentially forming a magnetic «balloon» filled with the current needed to fuel fusion while also confining the plasma.
When the solar wind carries CMEs and other powerful bursts of radiation into a planet's magnetic field, it can cause the magnetic field on the back side to press together, a process known as magnetic reconnection.