Gusts of space weather could be visible in x rays
JUN 23, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024441
Science : When the hot, fast ions of the solar wind slam into neutral atoms outside Earth’s magnetosphere, the atoms emit low-energy x rays. Those x rays, argues David Sibeck of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, could provide a means of viewing the magnetosphere and, when the solar wind reaches high intensity, a warning of damaging space weather.
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