News: Scientists Find Trigger For Northern Lights

Posted by timothy on Friday July 25, @03:22AM
from the when-aliens-are-tickled dept.

daftna writes "The New York Times (registration required) is reporting that NASA researchers 'have identified the trigger for the colorful electrical storms in the polar regions ... Scientists knew two events that occur in the tail of the magnetic field during substorms, but did not know which event acted as the trigger for the auroras.'"

[+] nasa, science, earth (tagging beta)

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