Flying Through a Magnetic Switchback, the ESA’s Solar Orbiter Provides Crucial New Space Weather Data
Solar Orbiter sampled rare particles inside the kink and found chemical signatures matching hot coronal loops, supporting interchange reconnection, researchers said.
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“The solar wind connects the Earth with the Sun. Understanding it has important implications for keeping the planet safe from extreme space weather events,” says a new study
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft flew through an S-shaped bend in the solar wind's magnetic field, known as the magnetic field.
Solar Orbiter tracks the origin of a solar wind switchback to the surface of the Sun and reconciles theories about its formation. The Solar Orbiter entry tracks the origin of the solar wind switchbacks on the surface of the Sun aparece primero en Merca2.
Magnetic "Switchbacks" abruptly bend back the field lines of the solar wind and have been considered puzzling for years. Solar Orbiter has now measured heavy ions in a particularly large sweep, whose charge states point to hot plasma from closed coronary loops. The data indicate that magnetic reconnexion released this plasma, while alfvén waves shaped the subsequent propagation. Paris (France). [...] The article Solar Orbiter has traced the orig…
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