NATS 1870 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coronal Mass Ejection, Solar Wind, Solar Prominence
4 Jun 2019
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Solar prominence: its the loops that rise from the sun. Solar ares: much more violent than a solar prominence, these explosions can reach over 100 million kelvin. This is is why most particles don"t manage to come inside. We are losing our magnetic eld right now because the magnetic eld itself is about to start reversal. The north & south poles are going to ip. A small portion of these charged particles sometimes gets through earths atmosphere. This happens if there is a very large coronal mass ejection or solar are. This is where the aurora"s are generated: mesosphere, stratosphere (this is where the ozone layer is, troposphere (closest to earth), this is where weather occurs. Most abundant gasses in earth"s atmosphere are nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), & co2 (0. 03%) Solar particles accelerating because of spiralling along earths magnetic eld slam into the particles in the ionosphere. These charged particles crash into our nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere.
