High above Earth’s poles, intense electrical currents called electrojets flow through the upper atmosphere when auroras glow in the sky. These auroral electrojets push about a million amps of electrical charge around the poles every second. They can create some of the largest magnetic disturbances on the ground, and rapid changes in the currents can […]
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Auroras, EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer), Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Missions, Small Satellite Missions, The Sun
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February 25, 2025
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