Aurora Borealis
Meteor
it's called a meteor
it's called a meteor
it's called a meteor
it's called a meteor
Air heated to incandescence.
It is heated ionised air and matter from the meteorite.
It is heated ionised air and matter from the meteorite.
Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights.
As it falls through the atmosphere and heats up, the glowing streak of light is called a meteor. If fragments of the object actually get through the atmosphere and fall to the ground, the fragments are called meteorites.
The Earth's magnetic field is called the Magnetosphere. Loops of magnetic energy coupling the north and south pole that trap energetic subatomic particles are called the Van Allen belt.
The plasma plume is essentially like a river that surrounds the Earths magnetic field. It sends particles into the magnetosphere from the atmosphere.