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Simulation of Earth’s foreshock during a solar storm
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- Title Simulation of Earth’s foreshock during a solar storm
- Released: 18/11/2019
- Length 00:00:15
- Language English
- Footage Type Graphic
- Copyright Vlasiator team, University of Helsinki
- Description
This movie from the Vlasiator computer model shows the foreshock above Earth – the first region of our planet’s magnetic environment that solar wind particles encounter – being engulfed by a magnetic cloud during a solar storm. The waves generally become much smaller, and so higher in frequency, than those arising during calm space weather conditions, and they break up into a much more complicated pattern, which contains many different frequencies.