Thursday, September 11, 2014

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News

ScienceDaily: Cosmic Rays News


Geomagnetic storm mystery solved: How magnetic energy turns into particle energy

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 05:38 AM PDT

Magnetic reconnection can trigger geomagnetic storms that disrupt cell phone service, damage satellites and black out power grids. But how reconnection, in which the magnetic field lines in plasma snap apart and violently reconnect, transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy remains a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics.

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