#substorm — Public Fediverse posts
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Substorm (Earth 🌍)
A substorm, sometimes referred to as a magnetospheric substorm or an auroral substorm, is a brief disturbance in the Earth's magnetosphere that causes energy to be released from the "tail" of the magnetosphere and injected into the high latitude ionosphere. Visually, a substorm is seen as a sudden brightening and increased movement of auroral arcs. Substorms were first described in qu...
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Direct evidence of #substorm-related impulsive injections of electrons at Mercury: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39565-4 -> A rain of electrons causes #Mercury’s X-ray auroras: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rain-electrons-mercury-xray-auroras - the discovery hints that #auroras on all planets except Neptune have a common explanation.