Earth’s Oxygen Helped Power The May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm
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Earth’s Oxygen Helped Power The May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm
When the Mother’s Day superstorm hit Earth in May 2024, the first thing most people noticed was the sky. Auroras spread far beyond their usual polar zones, turning the night red, green and purple over towns, coastlines, farms and cities that almost never see them. Social media filled with glowing skies. For many people, it […] The post Earth’s Oxygen Helped Power The May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm appeared first on Above The Norm News.
Japanese researchers have discovered that during extreme magnetic storms, the ring current affecting our planet's magnetic field is fueled primarily not by the solar wind, as previously assumed, but by ions emitted from the Earth's atmosphere. The scientists reached this conclusion after studying data from a colossal geomagnetic storm recorded in May 2024. Image generated by silent-forge. For the first time, Nagoya University researchers have su…
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