tech2 Staff NewsMar 03, 2021 15:31:58 IST
Scientists have reported seeing what they call a ‘space hurricane’, while spinning for several hours above the North Pole on August 20, 2014. The conditions are led to the studied “long-term, large and energetic space hurricane”, including factors such as solar wind density, magnetosphere energy, and wind speed. The new study Assuming that the 1000-km-wide swirling plasma found hundreds of kilometers above the North Pole, “wet” electricity replaced water.
Until now, without valid confirmation of space hurricanes, the phenomenon remained a theoretical possibility.
“… to prove this with such an amazing view,” study co – author Mike Lockwood, a space scientist at Reading University in the UK, said in a recitation about the retrospective study led by Shandong University in China.
Unlike the hurricanes we know, the space hurricane sent electricity into the ionosphere, which ScienceAlert report said, which gave a remarkable effect – a large aurora, a cyclone shape under the finger. The whole thing lasted nearly eight hours, investing a lot of energy and moving into the ionosphere.
Image of a space hurricane, created using the observational data. Image credit: Qing-He Zhang / Shandong University
“The conditions were otherwise quiet, and that was a mystery,” the report says. The shiny green aurorae in higher latitudes than the Earth – known as the often the Northern lights. But conditions at the time did not reflect spectacular solar conditions. The study team models the position of the spacecraft to identify the cause of the “plasma ruckus”. The phenomenon also occurred during a period of low geomagnetic activity, suggesting that they may be more common in our solar system and beyond. This highlights the importance of better monitoring of space weather, which could disrupt GPS systems, the study notes.
While the study illuminates the first discovery of space space in the planet’s upper atmosphere, its finding shows that space hurricanes may be very common on a planet, as ScienceAlertdescription of the inspection.