Substorms (2007)

Synopsis

This animation shows a magnetospheric substorm, during which the reconnection causes energy to be rapidly released along the field lines causing the auroras to brighten. Note: Earth's magnetic field lines including plasma. Animator: Walt Feimer (HTSI).

Uploader's description on archive.org

More like this

• Studying Auroras (2008)
• NASA's Heliophysics Observatories Study the Sun and Geospace (2008)
• Sentinels of the Heliosphere (2009)
• THEMIS Sees Magnetic Reconnection (2008)
• THEMIS Mission and Substorm Simulation (2006)
• THEMIS Explores the Earth's Bow Shock (2007)