Electric Currents From Space History

Download or read book Electric Currents from Space--History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features "Electric Currents from Space--History," written by David P. Stern and Mauricio Peredo as part of the Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere resource, provided online by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Discusses the discovery of the Birkeland currents, electric currents that link the ionosphere of the earth by flowing from space along magnetic field lines, usually associated with the polar aurora and substorms.