Earth  Sun  ID: 86

2-D Unstructured Mesh Particle-MHD Solar Wind Flow Over the Earth: Magnetic Potential

Visualizations by Liam Krauss Released on December 19, 1995
This series of animations shows a two-dimensional unstructured mesh particle-magnetohydrodynamic solar wind flow simulation of the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere.
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Contour lines of the z-component of the magnetic potential for a 2D simulation of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction
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Video slate image reads "AZ Contour Lines".

Visualization Credits

Liam Krauss (Hughes STX): Lead Animator
Andy Acuna (Hughes STX): Animator
F. Kazeminezhad (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Steve Zalesak (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Dan Spicer (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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This item is part of this series:
Magnetosphere

Keywords:
SVS >> Magnetohydrodynamics
SVS >> Solar Wind
DLESE >> Space science
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun