THEMIS Beauty Pass
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Scientist
- Vassilis Angelopoulos (University of California at Berkeley)
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THEMIS
Dataset can be found at: http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.shtml
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ID: 13687 Produced Video
![Complete transcript available.Music credit: “Intrigues and Plots” and “Repetitive Motion” by Laurent Dury [SACEM] from Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.](/vis/a010000/a013600/a013687/13687_AuroralBeads_YouTube.00320_print.jpg)
NASA Spacecraft Uncover Mystery Behind Auroral Beads
Read moreA special type of aurora, draped east-west across the night sky like a glowing pearl necklace, is helping scientists better understand the science of auroras and their powerful drivers out in space. Known as auroral beads, these lights often show up just before large auroral displays, which are caused by electrical storms in space called substorms. Until now, scientists weren’t sure if auroral beads are somehow connected to other auroral displays as a phenomenon in space that precedes substorms, or if they are caused by disturbances closer to Earth’s atmosphere.But powerful new computer models, combined with observations from NASA’s Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms – THEMIS – mission, have provided the first direct evidence of the events in space that lead to the appearance of these beads, and demonstrated the important role they play in our local space environment. ||
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