Los fen menos de plasma que ocurren en un lugar de la magnetosfera tambi n afectan a otros lugares. ... casquetes polares ?, las regiones alrededor de los polos magn ticos. Un buen ejemplo es la aurora polar . Si traz semos las l neas de campo en las que aparece la aurora (especialmente las subtormentas), probablemente llegar amos a la gruesa l mina de plasma (las 3 l neas rojas m s exteriores del lado derecho del dibujo) extendi ndose hacia la cola de la magnetosfera . ...
... Note: Click here a longer, much more comprehensive overview of the polar aurora . ... Magnetic Field . ... Aurora . ... 3b. Fritz Aurora . ... Electrons . ... Typical aurora (Dick Hutchinson ї) . In Alaska, Canada, Norway, Finland or northern Russia, on a clear night, a greenish glow is often seen in the sky, known as the "Northern Lights." ... Auroral light is produced at a height of about 100 km (60 miles) when fast electrons, arriving from space, slam into atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. ...
... large mosaic of Viking orbiter images 2500k jpg . Pathfinder images html . ... MGS images from the Mar 13 issue of Science html . True color image Mars by HST WFPC2 Feb 95 34k jpg ; 158k gif ; ( caption ) . ... Slightly chopped and zoomed image of the "grand canal" (Valles Marineris) of mars 157k gif ; 368k gif . Viking image of Mars showing a valley and what appears to be a delta 697k gif . ... MSSS Viking Image Archive html . ... Mars Atlas and Viking Orbiter image finder html . ...