What causes geomagnetic storms, and why are they currently visible in the U.S, while locations like Iceland often experience them more frequently?
In: Planetary Science
The sun’s corona…. the brightest and outermost part of the sun..(think flames of a fire) periodically escapes the sun… like sometimes you see flames in a camp fire separate from the main fire and follow the smoke and dissipate…
Well the sun is doing that on a large scale and this coronal mass ejection is filled with charged particles.
That mass of Corona makes its way to earth and collides with our earth’s magnetic field… and we see those particles interacting with the magnetic field and our atmosphere
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