03.12.2017 - 12:07 [ Berkeley.edu ]

UC Berkeley analysis of satellite data turns up first direct evidence that magnetic processes in space can accelerate electrons to near light speed

(7.11.2002) The observations were made April 1, 1999, as NASA‘s Wind satellite made a chance pass through the magnetic reconnection region in the Earth‘s shadow. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley‘s Space Sciences Laboratory report the results of their data analysis in the Nov. 4 issue of Physical Review Letters.