2. MEDIA ARTICLE: Polar auroras are most commonly known as the northern lights. The colours that appear in the northern sky have been studied for quite some time and scientists are discovering the reasons why they exist. Many believe that the reason these lights are not seen during the day is due to the strong radiation that’s given out through the day. These auroras are caused by charged particles that collide with the magnetic atmosphere. At first glance the aurora looks to be light in colour but the substorm after the first glow is a lot brighter and has a much darker colour. Yusuke Ebihara is a physicist from Japan who has been studying these northern lights. He and his partner, Tanaka, used a computer to create many different sequences
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In the media article, the general conclusion that is made is that the polar auroras are created by the sun. It is stated in the article that these auroras are not seen during the day because the suns radiation is too strong. Stephen Ornes, the author of the media article, concludes with how both Murphy and Ebihara discovered that the electrical charge from the solar winds can have an “overflow” which when it expands creates the colourful light show that we see in the sky. He also focuses a lot on how computer models played a huge role in their observations. Ornes, then, continues on to say that the observations that Murphy had made agreed with the data that Tanaka and Ebihara discovered. On the other hand, the research article made three major conclusions that focused more on examining the formations of WTS and FACs and their effects on the magnetic field and earthward flow. The research article concludes with three different conclusions all with spate formulas and all focusing on the field-aligned currents. Furthermore, the media article focuses on both Murphy and Ebihara’s discoveries whereas the research article focuses much more on Ebihara and Tanaka’s …show more content…
In the media article Murphy does state that there are still many questions that are unanswered about substorms, “…scientists still don’t fully understand how the charged particles interact with Earth’s magnetic field” (Ornes 2). He explains that there is still much to learn about the magnetic field that would possibly lead to more discoveries about the polar auroras. In the scholarly article, Ebiahar does mention a few times the difficulties that they encountered, “However, we believe that, by iterating the above loop many times, the force balance and current continuity condition are fully satisfied…We focus on phenomena evolving on a timescale of a minute, whereas the time step of the computation is about 0.02 s” (Ebihara 10,470). Also, both articles do mention the limitations because of technology and lack of further understanding.
8. The title Bright night lights, big science can be suitable for the research article because this article goes into so much detail on how the data is uncovered on the polar auroras, explaining each method that did and didn’t work. The data behind the observations of polar auroras truly is a big science. There has been so much research done in discovering how polar auroras exist and there is yet so much more to learn. The title Bright night lights, big science sums up both articles quite
In the media article, the general conclusion that is made is that the polar auroras are created by the sun. It is stated in the article that these auroras are not seen during the day because the suns radiation is too strong. Stephen Ornes, the author of the media article, concludes with how both Murphy and Ebihara discovered that the electrical charge from the solar winds can have an “overflow” which when it expands creates the colourful light show that we see in the sky. He also focuses a lot on how computer models played a huge role in their observations. Ornes, then, continues on to say that the observations that Murphy had made agreed with the data that Tanaka and Ebihara discovered. On the other hand, the research article made three major conclusions that focused more on examining the formations of WTS and FACs and their effects on the magnetic field and earthward flow. The research article concludes with three different conclusions all with spate formulas and all focusing on the field-aligned currents. Furthermore, the media article focuses on both Murphy and Ebihara’s discoveries whereas the research article focuses much more on Ebihara and Tanaka’s …show more content…
In the media article Murphy does state that there are still many questions that are unanswered about substorms, “…scientists still don’t fully understand how the charged particles interact with Earth’s magnetic field” (Ornes 2). He explains that there is still much to learn about the magnetic field that would possibly lead to more discoveries about the polar auroras. In the scholarly article, Ebiahar does mention a few times the difficulties that they encountered, “However, we believe that, by iterating the above loop many times, the force balance and current continuity condition are fully satisfied…We focus on phenomena evolving on a timescale of a minute, whereas the time step of the computation is about 0.02 s” (Ebihara 10,470). Also, both articles do mention the limitations because of technology and lack of further understanding.
8. The title Bright night lights, big science can be suitable for the research article because this article goes into so much detail on how the data is uncovered on the polar auroras, explaining each method that did and didn’t work. The data behind the observations of polar auroras truly is a big science. There has been so much research done in discovering how polar auroras exist and there is yet so much more to learn. The title Bright night lights, big science sums up both articles quite