Disciplines & Professions: Space Science

Space Science includes topics such as Aurora, Asteroid belts, Comets, Solar planets, and Zodiacal light.

 

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    Aurora Borealis/Australis

    Introduction For thousands of years humans have been able to look up at the northern sky and see strange, but colorful, glows of light. In ancient Rome, Julius Caeser dispatched troops to put out...

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  • Earth: Geodynamo
    Introduction Earth's magnetic field appears to be generated by a magnetic dynamo process near the core of the ...
  • Earth: Magnetosphere
    Introduction The overall shape of the geomagnetic field in space, a region called the magnetosphere, is much l...
  • Earth: Plasmasphere
    Introduction Within the geocoronal zone, a low-energy population of charged particles exists in what is called...
  • Earth: Ring Current
    Introduction The ring current extends from 8,000 kilometers to nearly 30,000 kilometers from the surface and o...
  • Van Allen Belts
    Introduction Within the magnetosphere there are several distinct populations of neutral particles and plasmas ...
  • Ionosphere
    The Upper Atmosphere There is no true edge to the atmosphere, or a beginning to 'outer space'. The atmosphere ...