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Magnetic reconnection

Illustration of the spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission in space in front of reconnecting magnetic field lines
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Spacecraft Reveal New Details of Magnetic Reconnection

by Morgan Rehnberg 15 February 2021

Energetic electrons are accelerated directly by magnetic reconnections and can act as tracers of large-scale magnetic field conditions.

Artist’s illustration of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft traveling through Earth’s magnetic field
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Deciphering Electron Signatures in Earth’s Magnetic Tail

by Mark Zastrow 21 February 202029 September 2021

A new analysis of spacecraft data collected near the tip of Earth’s magnetotail sheds light on how geomagnetic activity affects the motion of electrons in this region.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Can Moderate Space Weather Have Major Impacts?

by Michael A. Hapgood 22 February 2019

Pipeline corrosion is an example of why we need better awareness of how long-term exposure to moderate space weather may have significant economic impact by slowly degrading vulnerable systems.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Measuring the Magnetic Reconnection Rate in the Magnetotail

by Y. Wang 7 December 2018

Both simulations and observations are used to measure the magnetic reconnection rate in the Earth’s magnetotail, suggesting that the rate is correlated with the intensity of a magnetic substorm.

Four identical MMS spacecraft—one of which is pictured in this illustration—were launched in 2015 to study the process of magnetic reconnection.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Explanation for “Meandering” Electrons Orbiting Earth

by Mark Zastrow 11 May 2017

A new study proposes a simpler theory to explain a class of electrons zipping around Earth, propelled by magnetic explosions.

Dipolarization fronts (DFs), bursty bulk flows (BBFs), flux transfer events (FTEs), and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) in a high-resolution simulation of an idealized substorm.
Posted inScience Updates

Great Mysteries of the Earth's Magnetotail

by M. I. Sitnov, V. G. Merkin and J. Raeder 21 March 201621 March 2016

Workshop on Magnetotail Reconnection Onset and Dipolarization Fronts; Laurel, Maryland, 16–18 September 2015

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