News tagged with magnetic reconnection
Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...
How space eruptions happen
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.
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Pioneering 3D view of near-Earth magnetic 'dance'
Jun 29, 2007 |
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Scientists have obtained the first-ever 3D picture of interconnected magnetic ‘dances’ in near-Earth space, known as magnetic reconnection events.
New discovery on magnetic reconnection to impact future space missions
Jan 23, 2008 |
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ESA’s Cluster mission has, for the first time, observed the extent of the region that triggers magnetic reconnection, and it is much larger than previously thought. This gives future space missions a much ...
Cluster opens a new window on 'magnetic reconnection' in the near-Earth space
Mar 12, 2007 |
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Plasma physicists have made an unprecedented measurement in their study of the Earth's magnetic field. Thanks to ESA's Cluster satellites they detected an electric field thought to be a key element in the process ...
Magnetic fields get reconnected in turbulent plasma too
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Using measurements of the four ESA's Cluster satellites, a study published this week in Nature Physics shows pioneering experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection also in turbulent 'plasma' around Earth.
Scientists report first findings on key astrophysics problem
Nov 28, 2007 |
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In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Physics, an international team of space scientists led by researchers from the University of New Hampshire present findings on the first experimental evidence that points ...
NASA approves space mission to unlock the secrets of magnetic reconnection
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2007 |
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NASA has stepped up to the challenge of an NRC study by defining a four-spacecraft constellation that will probe known magnetic reconnection sites with the highest-resolution charged particle, electric field and magnetic ...
Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the ...
NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the ...
Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed
Oct 03, 2006 |
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Co-ordinated efforts by China/ESA's Double Star and ESA's Cluster spacecraft have allowed scientists to zero in on an area where energetic particles from the Sun are blasting their way through the Earth's magnetic ...
ESA’s Cluster flies through Earth’s electrical switch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2006 |
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ESA’s Cluster satellites have flown through regions of the Earth’s magnetic field that accelerate electrons to approximately one hundredth the speed of light. The observations present Cluster scientists with ...
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