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Listed below are questions submitted by users of "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" and the answers given to them. This is just a selection--of the many questions that arrive, only a few are listed. The ones included below are either of the sort that keeps coming up again and again--the danger of solar eruptions, the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, etc.--or else the answers make a special point, going into extra details which might interest other users.

    Classifications are tentative, and some entries appear under more than one heading.

Additional questions-and-answers:

In "The Great Magnet, the Earth" on magnetism of the Earth (some overlap with this list)

In "From Stargazers to Starships" on astronomy, physics and spaceflight.

1.   Magnetism

Magnetic field lines
Magnetic Shielding
Magnets of different shapes
On building an electromagnet
Electric and Magnetic Energy
What materials does a magnet pull?
What is the smallest magnet possible?
Are electric storms an "electromagnetic" phenomenon?
How can steady magnetic fields induce electric currents?

The Geiger counter (3 queries)
Cosmic Rays
How are ions produced?
What exactly does "Radiation" Mean?
Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight
Apollo Astronauts and radiation
Cosmic ray research using balloons
Geiger counters for locating lost objects
What is "Radiation"?
When and how were positive ions discovered?
Radius of particle gyration
Deflection of a beam of Electrons in the Earth's Field

Reversals of the Earth's field (4 queries)
Measuring the Earth's magnetic field
The strength of the Earth's field
Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind

Dimensions of the Magnetosphere (2 related questions)
Universal Time and Magnetic Local Time
What are "geomagnetic conjugate points"?

The Van Allen Belt
About the "Starfish" artificial radiation belt
What if the Radiation Belt Reached the Ground... ?
Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight
Radiation Belt and Brazil

The Sun's magnetic poles
Solar Eclipses
Use of solar wind for space propulsion
Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind
About the Upcoming Solar Maximum
Any connection between Solar Wind and Solar Flares?
Can anything solid be carried by the solar wind?
Blocking of the Solar Wind by our Moon?
The Speed of the Solar Wind
How can the intensely hot Sun be magnetic?
Does our magnetic field stop the atmosphere from getting blown away? Questions about the Solar Corona:
                    (1) Why don't its particles separate by weight?
                    (2) What accelerates the solar wind?
Who Discovered Sunspots?

About the "Starfish" artificial radiation belt
Soviet Nuclear Explosions in Space

What if the Radiation Belt Reached the Ground... ?
Magnetic effects from other planets
Blocking of the Solar Wind by our Moon?
Does our magnetic field stop the atmosphere from getting blown away?

The Geiger counter (3 queries)
Measuring the Earth's magnetic field
Magnetometer for Observing Magnetic Storms
A working model of the magnetosphere?
Magnetic health products Geiger counters for locating lost objects
Man-made triggering of radio emissions
"Soda-Bottle Magnetometer"

Can the Earth's field be used for spaceflight?
Synchronous satellites
Use of solar wind for space propulsion
Magnetic shielding against neutral matter?
Best orbit for a Space Station

About the Upcoming Solar Maximum
Radiation Hazards to Air Crews
The Ozone Hole and the Magnetic Field
What is a "REM"?
Radiation Belts and Manned Space Flight
Apollo Astronauts and radiation
Risks of Spaceflight: Fry or Freeze... ?
Risks from stormy "Space Weather"
Radiation Belt and Brazil
Was the magnetosphere involved in the hole in the ozone layer?
Effects of Radiation beyond the Van Allen Belts

Magnetometer for Observing Magnetic Storms
Skywriting by Aurora
Radio Propagation
When and where can I see "Northern Lights"?
"Importance of auroras to society"
Magnetic storms and headaches
Experimental simulation of the polar aurora
Can Polar Aurora be seen in Atlanta, Georgia?
Harnessing the energy of the Aurora?
Why has the aurora been so frequent lately?
Is the Polar Cusp visible to the Eye?

Capturing the Energy of the Solar Wind
The Ozone Hole and the Magnetic Field
Electric and Magnetic Energy
Free Energy from the Earth's Magnetic Field?
Why no aurora at the magnetic poles?
Harvesting electrons from power lines?
Harnessing the energy of the Aurora?
Magnetic induction by the Magnetosphere

A working model of the magnetosphere?
How does one contain a Plasma?
Can plasma physics explain ball lightning?

Can the Earth's field be used for spaceflight?
Skywriting by Aurora
Does the magnetosphere affect weather?     (a)
Magnetism and weather      (b)
Magnetic health products
Did astronauts use articifial magnetic shields"?
Man-made triggering of radio emissions
Is space debris electrically charged?
Magnetic induction by the Magnetosphere

Synchronous satellites
Alternate theory of the Sun and solar wind
Lining-up of Planets
How do Magnetic Reversals affect Animal Migrations?
Ozone and the Magnetic Field (1)
Ozone and the Magnetic Field (2): The "ozone hole"
There are electromagnetic waves all around us!

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