Proton Aurora Forms from Reconnection Event
Solar wind protons can breach the Earth's magnetic field through a magnetic reconnection event. Sometimes when this happens we see a (proton) aurora when the solar protons make it to the Earth's atmosphere.
Movie of solar protons breaching the magnetic shield through the reconnection event.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, December 3, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.