In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts magnetic energy to both thermal energy, or heat, and kinetic energy ...

In 2017, MMS spotted the trademark magnetic reconnection of a substorm — but no actual substorm to go along with it. A ...

it causes an invisible explosion called a magnetic reconnection. NASA recently recorded this phenomenon for the first time using four of its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission spacecraft.

The researchers proposed that these tiny jets may be triggered by the reconnection of small-angle misaligned magnetic fields within a braided magnetic field. This new mechanism challenges the ...

Our research group at LASP has built, or is currently building, electric field and wave instruments on five NASA missions including, FAST (Earth's aurora), THEMIS (Earth's magnetosphere), RBSP ...