🌌 Aurora Solar Wind Chamber

Kristian Birkeland's Terrella experiment. Solar wind plasma streams channeled along geomagnetic dipole field lines excite shimmering atmospheric auroral ovals.

SOLAR WIND FLUX: LEFT TO RIGHT // MAGNETOPAUSE BOW SHOCK Oxygen 557.7 nm Emerald Green Emission
Geomagnetic Kp-Index
Kp = 3.0 (Minor)
Solar Wind Velocity
450 km/s
Auroral Oval Latitude
67.5° N/S
Solar Wind Density 5.5 protons/cm³
Interplanetary Magnetic Field (Bz) -4.2 nT (Southward)
Birkeland Lorentz Drift Active