Earth's Magnetic Field to Aurora
Join a ride with electrons along the Earth's magnetic field line to the formation site of the aurora.
View of the Earth's geomagnetic field and following the electrons down to the aurora formation.
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 Wednesday, March 30, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:23 AM EST.
Series
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[3D Unstructured-mesh Magnetosphere Simulation]
ID: 554Model generated by Dan Spicer, NASA
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