What is the aurora? It is like a neon sign. You have particles streaming that collide with particle; molecules or atoms, they can either excite molecules and atoms or break them apart. When the molecules are broken apart they release photons. So its like a shower of breaking molecules and creates these cascades. So it’s like a shower happening all the way down to the lower atmosphere. So what I learned is that is all quantum mechanics. It is very interesting to know that it is a chemical process
north pole can inspire and entertain people from heavy work. Besides giant glacial and icy sea, the most beautiful is the aurora, a natural light in the sky. Aurora is a phenomenon when magnetosphere of Earth is influenced by the solar wind that precipitate charged particles from either solar wind or magnetosphere into outer atmosphere. One month later, Sophisticated researcher from 12 space technology companies gather at Boston in the United State and start their trip to north
What is Aurora? Aurora, the northern light, is a collision between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth 's atmosphere which is predominantly seen in the high attitude area like Antarctic or Alaska region. Aurora usually appears in many colours while pale green and pink are the most common colours. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights also appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling
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The Northern lights are poetry, they are nature's light show, and they are quantum leaps in the oxygen atom. They are elementary particle physics, superstition, mythology and fairy tales. The northern lights have filled people with wonder and inspired artists; they have frightened people to think that the end is at hand. More exact explanations of the phenomenon could not be given until modern particle physics were developed, and knowledge about details in the earth’s magneto sphere has been based
The Aurora Borealis is made when storms on the the sun form solar winds, or large streams of charged particles streaming toward the earth.These streams could have upward of ten million megawatts of electrical power. That is enough power to light up Los Angeles. It generally takes about three days for these streams of particles to reach the earth's upper atmosphere, or ionosphere. When these charged particles hit the earth's atmosphere, they excite the atoms contained in the atmosphere. These excited
X When I was young and saw the picture like the figure1, I think it was not real. It cannot happen in the earth. Maybe someone did Photoshop to edit and retouch the colorful colors in that picture. However, it is a natural phenomenon that happened in the earth 's atmosphere. Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon as "Aurora Borealis." I have three areas of information about auroras to advise you: what aurora borealis is, where the aurora borealis typically seen is, and comparison and contrast this
The Folklore and Science of Aurora Borealis Imagine a cold October night, you walk out to your car and something catches your eye. You step further into the street be it busy or not, and you begin to turn in 360 circles. For what your eyes behold is far from anything you have ever seen. A circle of green and blue swirl through the night sky, I could best describe this as two ballroom dancers doing a "Waltz" through the night sky. They flow, they glide so gracefully that they capture
different form of ring system than that found at Saturn or Jupiter. At Uranus there is even a very obvious partial ring, or "ring arc". Many moons are icy moons with fascinating surface features. These icy moons have neither an atmosphere nor a magnetosphere, and there is not much possibility for life. The surfaces of these moons indic...
Jupiter has 63 known satellites(Feb 2004) the largest are named Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. It has a magnetic field that traps electrons, protons, and other electrically charged particles in radiation belts around the planet. Also its magnetosphere extends more than 650 million kilometers. The surprising thing that caught my eye that I didn’t know, well actually three ...
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in the solar system like Mercury having no atmosphere, and Venus’ acidic, radiation filled clouds. They are also known as electrically charged hurricanes. The magnetosphere, which is a constituency of strong magnetic forces surrounding Earth, gets compressed to become a teardrop shape by the solar wind as it moves past Earth. The magnetosphere stops the solar wind from reaching our Earth’s surface. When the solar wind blusters on a comet, it makes an ion tail which is one of the many types of tails
magnetic force of the magnetic field. What many people do not know though is the earth’s magnetic field provides way more than that. The magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, protects us from all kinds of harmful substances. Some of these substances include solar wind and harmful radiation from the sun. The magnetosphere also protects the atmosphere, which protects us. What many people also don’t know is that the poles of the magnetic field are prone to reversal. Research has shown that
Introduction The solar system has eight planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Of these eight planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as gas planets, which means that they are made up of mostly hydrogen and helium and they don’t have a distinct surface. These four planets are also the only planets with rings around them. Although Jupiter is the largest of the four gas planets, Saturn’s rings are the biggest and most dazzling. Saturn is the sixth
WHY “LIFE AS WE KNEW IT” IS NOT PLAUSIBLE Introduction The events in the book “Life as We Knew it” by Susan Beth Pfeffer, in my opinion, are questionable at best. Along with the grammatical errors scattered everywhere, I believe that the book lacks an actual scientific basis. Here I will explain my reasoning on why the events in “Life as we knew it” are not plausible through the human interactions, astronomy, and physics. Human Error Evacuation To start off, there was no evacuation of the population
the space probe Galileo suggests that there may be an ocean of liquid water underneath the icy crust of Ganymede. It is believed that this moon is the first example of a moon with a magnetosphere in the solar system. It is also believed that this moon is the first example of a magnetosphere inside another magnetosphere. Then there is Callisto, Jupiter’s second largest moon. Approximately 2,983 miles across, Callisto is about the size of mercury and orbits 1,170,000 miles away from the gas giant,
Space phenomenon such as geomagnetic storms which affect the Earth’s magnetosphere can destroy satellites. Destroyed satellites prevent communication with prevents human space exploration. Flying through the geomagnetic storm can affect human organs negatively. This phenomenon ties in with the Van Allen radiation belts. These
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest mass object in the solar system of all the other planets. Jupiter is twice the size of all the other planets combined. It is as 318 times the sizes of earth. The distance that Jupiter orbits the sun is 778,330,000 km (Gallant pp154). The diameter is 142,984 km and the mass that it has is 1.900e27 kg. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Mars is some times brighter. Galileo discovered Jupiter
Solar Storms Storms in space could have a devastating effect on our society. Solar storms are a result of solar flares and are electromagnetic in nature. They are capable of causing power outages and halting all types of communication, including; electronic pagers; radio and television broadcasts; credit card transactions; military communications; etc. Solar flares are cyclical, usually over a period of eleven years. There are three basic stages to a solar flare. The first stage is the precursor
The Jovian Planets Far beyond Earth in the solar nebula lies an ice belt and beyond that lay the four Jovian planets. They are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jovian means "Jupiter- like" in which the rest of the jovian planets do coincide with the name. Uranus Neptune and Saturn, all carry the same traits as Jupiter. The jovian planets are large gas giants that contain mainly a thick atmosphere of Hydrogen and helium. These planets do not have solid surfaces, rather they just get denser with