Measuring Inter Planetary Shock
August 24 , 2019
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- Recently, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission made the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock.
- Interplanetary shocks are a type of collision-less shock.
- Here particles transfer energy through electromagnetic fields instead of directly bouncing into one another.
- These shocks are made of particles and electromagnetic waves, are launched by the Sun.
- This phenomenon is observed in: supernovae, black holes and distant stars.
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