Earth  Sun  ID: 13506

Solar Wind Interacting with Earth's Magnetic Field

Released on December 20, 2019
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A conceptual animation showing solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field and causing atmospheric loss at the polar cusps.
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A conceptual animation showing solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field and causing atmospheric loss within the cusp aurora at the polar cusps.
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A conceptual animation showing solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetic field, causing the magnetic field lines to reconnect and causing atmospheric loss within the cusp aurora at the polar cusps.
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A conceptual animation showing Earth's polar cusps and the cusp aurora.
 

Used Elsewhere In

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Credits

Josh Masters (Freelance): Animator
Joy Ng (USRA): Producer
Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase): Producer
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Magnetic Reconnection
SVS >> Solar Wind
SVS >> Sun >> Magnetic Field
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics >> Solar Wind
SVS >> Atmospheric Loss
SVS >> Aurora
SVS >> Grand Challenge
SVS >> Cusp Aurora
SVS >> Polar Cusp
SVS >> VISIONS-2

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0