Close-up of the barrier protecting the Earth from the Sun storm is a million km / h - extremely beautiful and fanciful

Scientists have found the secret to help the Earth resist huge energy from.

The sun is a giant energy sphere, always emitting powerful bursts of energy. These are the Sun storms, with speeds up to millions of kilometers per hour.

Science once confirmed that it was the storms of the Sun that turned Mars into a dead planet, even though it previously had oceans larger than the present Earth.

The earth is still alive today because of a magnetic membrane, like a shield protecting the atmosphere from being torn down by the solar storm.

And now, for the first time in history, NASA has observed and learned how this membrane is formed.

Membrane formation process.

NASA said that this barrier is formed from a process called "magnetic reconnection" - a phenomenon that occurs when a magnetic field changes. It occurs in the "magnetosphere" chaotic region. And with this discovery, all our knowledge of how to protect this planet could be changed completely.

"We can create new hypotheses and models, making it easier to observe similar barriers on other planets." - Dr. Jonathan Eastwood from Imperial College (UK) said.

According to NASA, the magnetic connection process has been observed many times in the magnetosphere. However, it usually only occurs in relatively smooth conditions, in the area less affected by the science so little attention is paid to it.

However, with four new observing spacecraft, NASA realized this phenomenon occurred in an area adjacent to the magnetosphere, called magnetosheath.

In this area, the atmosphere is very chaotic, and the Sun storm sweeps directly through it.

These four ships are part of the MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) project, which is responsible for investigating the magnetic connection phenomenon that is already very popular in the universe. What they found, however, was a new form of connection: electron magnetic reconnection (electrons reconnection) that was completely different from what humans had known.

In the past, what happened in the magnetosheath area was a complete mystery to science, because the amount of plasma particles was so intense and chaotic. Now, the type of connection they find here is much smaller. Moreover, instead of connecting with hydrogen ions, it uses electrons.

"The chaotic region at the magnetosheath area contains a lot of magnetic energy," said Tai Phan, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

"These energies come directly from the winds of a million km / h of the Sun. When it hits the magnetosheath area, violent plasma waves will come."

In the past, science could not explain how the Earth handled that energy. But it seems that the "reconnection" phenomenon will be the answer.

The reason is that because of its smaller size, this electron reconnection process will be much faster than usual. It allows our magnetic membrane to react extremely quickly to the effects of the solar wind.

Besides, research shows a huge potential from the MMS project. It brought a lot of data that made science surprising. And maybe in the future, there will be more "heavenly" revelations, and the scientific community is waiting for that.