Studying Space Weather in the Lab (IMAGE)
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Clockwise from upper left are: computer simulation of the solar wind in contact with the Earth's magnetosphere, magnetosphere simulation experiment at Columbia University, computer visualization of turbulent plasma currents in Swarthmore plasma wind tunnel (experiment at bottom right), magnetic surfaces overlaid on merging plasma with reconnection, and spectrogram showing interaction of magnetic waves in the UCLA Large Plasma Device.
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M. Yamada, J. Yoo, Seth Dorfman, David Schaffner, Thomas Max Roberts, and Mike Mauel
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