Friday, August 15, 2008

Magnetic Storms: Our Secret Weapon Against the Middle East

Just kidding guys, it's only the northern lights. "As they capture and store energy from the solar wind, the Earth's magnetic field lines stretch far out into space. Magnetic reconnection releases the energy stored within these stretched magnetic field lines, flinging charged particles back toward the Earth's atmosphere," said David Sibeck, THEMIS project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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