Earth's magnetic field - 05/2007

Visualization 3D of the earth magnetic field. Representation of the magnetic field lines.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• earth magnetic field
• magnetosphere
• numerical model
• simulation
• magnetohydrodynamics
• Nikolai Tsyganenko
• Jean Ahmad

[magnitooo]

annoying music tbh

[enzo396]

@magnitooo What do you suggest ?

[enzo396]

@CommanderCody88 I don't know if I've understood you correctly, but the sun's and earth's magnetic fields aren't responsible of the orbital trajectory of earth around the sun. According to the most recent theory of Albert Einstein general relativity, it's because of the distortion of space-time by the earth's and sun's masses. But it's still a good question to know why it's more the gravity than the magnetic field who influences the orbital trajectory.

[enzo396]

@CommanderCody88 Finally, as we can see it the symmetry breaks appear during the earth's rotation in a day. Because the sun wind pressure is constant and uniform, the answer is somewhere in the description of the earth's inner core which is responsible of the earth's magnetic field, and the earth's position which is inclined in his orbital plane around the sun as we can see it in my new video.

[enzo396]

@CommanderCody88 The answer is not simple, as to describe the behavior of real physical objects. Imagine a falling leaf tree, which is influenced by his shape, his mass repartition, the complex distribution of wind pressure and maybe you if you touch it etc.

The videos of the earth's magnetic field come from the visualization of Dr. Nikolai Tsyganenko famous models, who aim to have a formal description of this object.

[JeremiahDaradal]

the earth is so beautiful! no wonder aliens don't want to destroy it! j/k

[ncreda]

Looks to me like we are on a beautiful vessel sailing through the dark sea.

[cblazer]

i have a question does the earth and sun's magnetosphere act like normal magnets.. like when you have a north and south that attract each other and south and south repel, north and north repel. Does the sun and earth react the same way and how does the polarization effect the solar winds, coronal mass ejections etc?

[thatonekid722]

may be a stupid question, but why is the magnetic field streched on one side and shorter on the side facing the sun?

So, the solar wind is a ionized gaz and so it interact with the earth's magnetic field. The field is deformed in the direction along with the wind blow, shorter on the side facing the sun because of the pressure of the wind as the air wind could do it, and streched on the other side.

Answer From enzo396

Thank You for the reply.

[ttjoslin]

While watching this, I suddenly realized that I'd seen an image much like the still frame representing the magnetosphere above. I did a quick Google search on it, and I found it. Within the region of the Nazca Desert are the infamous Nazca Lines. One of the geoglyphs there looks kind of like a spider but with 6 legs instead of 8. When I compared the above image with the glyph, I was amazed. Very, very similar. Makes me curious as to what the intended message is.

[magnitooo]

@enzo396 im suggesting a guy talkin and explaining wuts hapening

[OriMedian]

How far does the magnetic field of our earth stretch? or does that depend on solar activity?

[Symphonya90]

@Titttoh Vivaldi's 4 seasons - Winter :)