Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere! - NASA
Aug 9, 2021 · The night sky is full of planets, satellites, and cosmic objects we can see with our eyes and telescopes. In between all that material there’s a huge amount of invisible matter and the vast majority of it is called plasma. Follow along with scientists Doug Rowland and Don Gurnett, as we journey through this mysterious and electrifying substance.
The Earth's Plasmasphere
Apr 26, 2023 · This "donut shaped" region of cold (about 1 electron volt in energy) plasma encircling the planet is called the plasmasphere. Because of space weather storms (kind of a generic phrase for those other processes) this cold and dense plasmaspheric plasma can actually end up all over the place.
NASA SVS | What is Plasma? - NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Mar 10, 2023 · Plasma makes up 99.9% of the visible universe, but what is it? This video discusses what plasma is, where it lives, and how NASA studies it.
Probing a 100-Year-Old Theory of Plasma Motion for the ... - NASA …
Jul 6, 2021 · Measuring the basic interactions of space plasmas with electric and magnetic fields helps scientists better understand different mechanisms that fuel energetic space weather events, from auroras to plasma ejections off the Sun, which can interfere with satellites and communications on Earth.
#7. Plasma - NASA
Nov 25, 2001 · In the Sun's atmosphere, a large fraction of the atoms at any time is "ionized" by such collisions, and the gas acts as a plasma. Unlike cool gases (e.g. air at room temperature), plasmas conduct electricity and are strongly affected by magnetic fields.
Plasma Kristall 4 - NASA Science
Dec 20, 2024 · Plasma Kristall-4 studies the interaction between atoms by recreating them on a larger scale, substituting microscopic dust particles and injecting them into neon and argon gas to watch their behavior – research impossible within Earth's gravity.
PLASMA - NASA
Aug 30, 2023 · Sobhani will leverage machine learning to expedite the discovery of novel ionic liquids with specific thermal properties beyond the limits of known heat transfer fluids, thus pushing the boundaries of performance for state-of-the-art thermal control. Back to …
Tracing the Origin and Energization of Plasma in the Heliosphere
Oct 10, 2023 · SPICES is a new sensor that will help scientists discover where matter originates and how it is energized throughout the solar system. SPICES will measure plasma in space and trace its origin back to the Sun, planetary atmospheres, comet tails, and interstellar space.
NASA SVS | How Plasma Transports Energy
Apr 2, 2018 · By understanding the fundamental process that transports energy through a plasma, NASA can improve nuclear fusion technology and better understand how the solar wind - the constant flow of solar particles that bathes the entire solar system - is …
NASA Observations Reshape Basic Plasma Wave Physics
Mar 31, 2017 · Kinetic Alfvén waves have long been suspected to be energy transporters in plasmas — a fundamental state of matter composed of charged particles — throughout the universe.