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How Plasma Transports Energy Visualization

Different colored wavy lines on a black background
Shot from the SVS video about how energy is transported in a plasma.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Levels
  • Advanced (9-12+)
Material Type
  • Animation/Visualization
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
NGSS
  • PS1 - Matter and its Interactions
  • PS2 - Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Heliophysics Topics
  • Electromagnetism
  • Energy
  • Magnetosphere
  • Plasma
  • Solar Wind
Heliophysics Missions
  • Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

This collection of scientific visualizations shows how plasma transports energy and the physics behind a kinetic Alfvén wave. For the first time, scientists working with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have been able to directly examine the microphysics of kinetic Alfvén waves in the Earth’s magnetosphere.

Find these visualizations here. ↗