Shield of cracked magnetic field, Earth attacked by cosmic rays

GRAPES-3, the world's largest and most sensitive cosmic ray tracking device, detected a stream of high-energy beams reaching the Earth through a gap in the magnetic crust.

The telescope measuring the muon GRAPES-3 in Ooty, India, recorded a stream of cosmic rays with energy of about 20 GeV attacking the Earth in two hours, according to Phys.org. The findings were published by the journalist and engineer group GRAPES-3 in the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Physical Review Letters on October 20.

The magnetic shield around the Earth is temporarily cracking.(Photo: NASA).

Cosmic rays appear when the giant plasma cloud emanates from the solar fire that hits the Earth at a rate of about 2.5 million km per hour, creating a serious compression strain on the planetary planet at a distance. 4 - 11 times the radius of the Earth. This process gives rise to a strong magnetic storm, leading to aurora north and radio signal loss in many high latitude countries.

From the Earth's volume spreads with a radius of one million km, acting as the first protective layer, shielding people before cosmic rays coming continuously from the Sun and the universe, protecting life on the planet. fine from intense radiation.

Many simulations conducted by the GRAPES-3 research group show that the magnetic field shield around the Earth temporarily cracks during magnetic reconnection, enabling cosmic ray particles to carry low energy into the atmosphere.

The Earth's magnetic field drives these particles about 180 degrees, from midday to midnight and is detected by the GRAPES-3 telescope around midnight on June 22, 2015. t The researchers took several weeks to analyze and decode the data by simulation on the 1280 core computer system.

Magnetic storms can cause many disruptions to human activity such as widespread power outages, disruption of the satellite navigation system (GPS), and satellite communications.