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The story of the aurora begins wi the Sun and the Sun's magnetic field
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Auroral Currents
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- 1 Physics in an Astronomy Context: Auroral Current
- 2 Magnetic field overview
- 3 Magnetic field of a line current
- 4 Which way is the current flowin A line current is flowing directly above you. You measure the magnetic field coming out of the page. What way is the current flowing? Direction A or direction B?
- 5 Which way is the field pointing
- 6 The story of the aurora begins wi the Sun and the Sun's magnetic field
- 7 The Magnetosphere
- 8 Field Aligned currents light up the sky. We call it the Aurora.
- 9 The aurora as seen by the Spa Shuttle (300 km altitude)
- 10 Other planets have aurora to
- 11 The scientific age started with De Magnete
- 12 Worldwide navigation by compass led the discovery of magnetic storms PHILOSOPHICAZ • George Graham, a London TRANSACTIONS
- 13 Birkeland did pioneering wor
- 14 Birkeland concluded that electric current from space and closed through the ionosp
- 15 Scientists argued about Birkeland's ideas
- 16 Impact of the August 1859 sto
- 17 How bad could it be?
- 18 NASA's THEMIS mission has made gre: progress in understanding the energy fic that power the aurora and auroral currents