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What are effects of solar flares?
solar flares can wipe out global communication. they can temporarily disable satellites and that can wipeout telephones, internet, and x-box live. the charged particles coming off the sun and going with the solar winds can come into the earth's atmosphere. that can cause Auroras. charged particles coming in and mixing with high-altitude air molecules that cause the Auroras.
What are Auroras produced by?
The sun is constantly releasing charged particles out into space (electrons, protons, etc). This is known as the Solar Wind. Occasionally, a solar flare or coronal mass ejection releases a significant quantity of these particles (millions or even billions of tons of them). When they impact the Earth's magnetic field, they can cause the magnetic field lines to break and reconnect, which causes the charged particles to rush towards the poles. When these particles hit the upper atmosphere, they react with the atoms and molecules of the air and cause them to glow with the characteristic colours associated with the aurora.
How far north do you have to be to see the northern lights?
Yes and No. Northern lights are seen in the north, the same phenomenon (Southern Lights - Aurora Australis) can be seen in the far south but so few people live there that they are not as famous. The charged particles from the Sun hit the Earth's atmosphere and cause a current of particles to flow along the earth's magnetic field lines into the polar regions (north and south.)
How do electrons cause an Aurora?
An Aurora Australis or an Aurora Borealis occurs when streams of particles from the sun's solar winds hit the earth's atmosphere at an angle (as can only happen at the poles). These particles interact with the edges of the earth's magnetic field and when they collide with the gases in the ionosphere, the particles glow creating curtains of blue, green and magenta. An aurora is sometimes accompanied by a crackling sound.
What was the source of molten rock on the newly formed moon?
Probably Earth. It is assumed that in the very early life of the Earth it was hit by an object the size of Mars, resulting in matter ejected from the Earth, forming the Moon.
How is the Aurora Australis formed?
The Aurora Australis in the southern hemisphere, (and Aurora Borealis in the northern hemisphere) are magnificent displays of coloured light. They result from collisions between electrically charged gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles from the sun that enter the atmosphere. Sunspot activity causes electrons and protons from the sun to be blown towards the earth on the solar wind. The different colours are caused by the different types of gas particles. The reason they occur more at the poles is that earth's magnetic field, which usually deflects the particles, is weaker there, allowing the particles to enter. Some particles are attracted by the magnetic poles due to the electromagnetic behaviour of charged particles, which causes the particles to be led down the lines of magnetic flux until they hit the atmosphere.
When charged particles from the sun hit oxygen and nitrogen atoms in air what is formed?
heat
How is the aurora borealis connected to the solar flares?
When a solar flare is ejected from the sun it releases billions of positively charged particles (ionized) particles. When these particles hit the earths magnetic feild it produces the aurora borealis.
How does the Earth's magnetic field help people?
The Earth's Magnetic shield is important for preventing the Atmosphere from being destroyed by solar wind by deflecting dangerous particles from impacting the Earth.It protects Us from the magnetic / electrical radiation that comes from the Sun. High radiation periods coincide with solar storms.It protects us from solar radiation (wind) from the sun
What is a kid friendly definition of ionosphere?
The ionosphere is the part of the earth's atmosphere (the layers of gases that surround the earth and stay there because of the earth's gravity) where sunrays are able to ionize some of the gas substance. This means that the gas substances, because of the high amounts of energy in the sunrays hitting them, lose or gain electrically charged particles (such as electrons, the tiny charged particles orbiting the atom core, or ions, larger, electrically charged particles) and themselves become electrically charged. Electrical charge is responsible for the fundamental force of physics called electromagnetism, which is what creates magnetism and electricity. Because of this electromagnetism in the ionosphere, when large bursts of sunrays hit the atmosphere from time to time the amazing northern lights and southern lights, the auroras, become visible in the far north and far south of our planet.
What are effects of solar flares?
solar flares can wipe out global communication. they can temporarily disable satellites and that can wipeout telephones, internet, and x-box live. the charged particles coming off the sun and going with the solar winds can come into the earth's atmosphere. that can cause Auroras. charged particles coming in and mixing with high-altitude air molecules that cause the Auroras.
What are Auroras produced by?
The sun is constantly releasing charged particles out into space (electrons, protons, etc). This is known as the Solar Wind. Occasionally, a solar flare or coronal mass ejection releases a significant quantity of these particles (millions or even billions of tons of them). When they impact the Earth's magnetic field, they can cause the magnetic field lines to break and reconnect, which causes the charged particles to rush towards the poles. When these particles hit the upper atmosphere, they react with the atoms and molecules of the air and cause them to glow with the characteristic colours associated with the aurora.
What is Aurora Polaris?
an arora is when high charged paritcles come from some where lets say the sun they go from 900 to 10,000 miles per hour and collide into the atmaspher to make the glowing areas at the north pole and the south pole
How far north do you have to be to see the northern lights?
Yes and No. Northern lights are seen in the north, the same phenomenon (Southern Lights - Aurora Australis) can be seen in the far south but so few people live there that they are not as famous. The charged particles from the Sun hit the Earth's atmosphere and cause a current of particles to flow along the earth's magnetic field lines into the polar regions (north and south.)
Does air conduct heat?
The convection of the air causes the particles to heat up. In other words, the heated particles hit the air particles, causing the air particles to heat up. So it doesn't "conduct" heat rather that the air heats up from a heat source.
How does the earth magnetosphere protect the earth?
The Earth's magnetosphere acts as a shield, protecting the planet from the solar wind and cosmic radiation by deflecting charged particles. It also helps prevent the atmosphere from being stripped away into space. The magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind, forming a protective barrier around the Earth.
How did gold foil experiment show that there is a nucleus in the atom?
The gold foil experiment showed that there is a nucleus by how the alpha particles(positively charged particles) were deflected and changed course by the foil. It showed that the atom is made of mostly empty space because most particles went through the foil. Some of the particles though were deflected to the sides of the container around the foil and some where even reflected back at the light almost. Rethurford (or however you spell is name lol search it) theorized that there is a small nucleus that is positively charged that some particles came close to and were deflected away because the nucleus had an effect on them. Some particles hit the nucleus exactly and were reflected back only because it was positively charged if it had been negativly charged it wouldn't have went back to the light.
