First-ever 'Space Hurricane' Detected over the North Pole
For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600 mile wide(1,000 kilometres) hurricane of plasma in Earth's upper atmosphere, a phenomenon they're calling a "space hurricane."
Space Hurricane
- The space hurricane, a mysterious fuzzy patch of aurora lights, raged for nearly 8 hours on Aug. 20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth's magnetic North Pole.
- Made from a tangled mess of magnetic field lines and fast-flying solar wind, the hurricane was invisible to the naked eye — however, four weather satellites that passed over the North Pole detected a formation not unlike a typical terrestrial hurricane.
- The space hurricane ....
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