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CORONAL HOLE: Extreme UV telescopes onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are monitoring a dark hole in the sun's atmosphere--a coronal hole:
Coronal holes are vast regions where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole is heading for Earth now. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights when it arrives late on March 12th or March 13th.
Substorms generally do not substantially add to the ring current. That happens in magnetic storms, when following an eruption on the sun (a "coronal mass ejection" or a "solar flare"—details are still being debated, see MSPF) a fast-moving plasma cloud hits the Earth. If the IMF has a southward component, this not only pushes the magnetopause boundary closer to Earth (at times to about half its usual distance), but it also produces an injection of plasma from the tail, much more vigorous than the one associated with substorms.
The plasma population of the ring current may now grow substantially, and a notable part of the addition consists of O+ oxygen ions extracted from the ionosphere as a by-product of the polar aurora. In addition, the ring current is driven earthward (which energizes its particles further), temporarily modifying the field around the Earth and thus shifting the aurora (and its current system) closer to the equator.
The magnetic disturbance may decay within 1–3 days as many ions are removed by charge exchange, but the higher energies of the ring current can persist much longer.
Originally posted by downtown436
I was just going to post a thread like this. Over at GLP they are saying we are all about to be cooked alive!!!!
I'm no expert, but there is something terribly wrong with the magnetosphere right now.
A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole is heading for Earth now. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights when it arrives late on March 12th or March 13th.
Originally posted by downtown436
GLP is a site that is sort of like ATS, but is a little more raw. www.godlikeproductions.com Overall it is not a very good site, because people just load it with crapola and they just let it be what it is, whereas ATS is much more trustworthy, and if I see something on GLP that seems like it might be fake I check it with ATS, like this magnetosphere thing, I was about to post it on ATS because I don't know much about the magnetosphere, and there are some really smart people here that could tell me what is going on. Luckily it looks like some of my fears have been confirmed that something is very wrong.
Now I'm just wondering exactly what is about to happen because of this.