NASA's THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms)  is a mission to investigate what causes auroras in the Earth's atmosphere to dramatically change from slowly shimmering waves of light to wildly shifting streaks of color. Discovering what causes auroras to change will provide scientists with important details on how the planet's magnetosphere works and the important Sun-Earth connection. The aurora borealis seen from Lake Manitoba and Finland. Spectacular colour display of auroras borealis as seen. The northern lights have now been photographed in 3-D to form a rope-like image over the Yukon Territory. A fleet of NASA spacecraft, launched less than eight months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power...... NASA scientists say they’ve made key discoveries about the northern lights, including the presence of “magnetic ropes” linking the Earth’s upper atmosphere to the sun...... A magnetic rope is a twisted bundle of magnetic fields organized much like the twisted hemp of a mariner's rope. Spacecraft have detected hints of these ropes before, but a single spacecraft was insufficient to map their 3D structure. AND HOW DOES THIS CONTINUING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY RELATE TO THE KNOLWEDGE OF ALL SCIENCES OF CREATION AND LIFE called vED..... In the study of SCINECES OF CREATION AND LIFE in sNskRUt language texts called vED left for mankind of this vEDik time era called kli-yug.... vED states in most of its corpus of the texts called puraaAN that in kli-yug humankind will face dwindling of the GNaan which includes the aaDH`yaatmik (spiritual and metaphysical including human senses cannot perceive but do exist such as "dark matter" which comprises 95 percent of what we know as space....) as well as the scientific knowledge of The Creator bRH`m and all its creations.... which includes infinite number of bRH`maaND (universe) similar to what our current humankind exists in and can hardly grasp much about it...... And this dwindling GNaan status will increase for the remaining 429,000 years of the total of 432,000 year span of kli-yug which is estimated to have started around Feb of 3102 BC when mahaaBHaart war ended killing 1.7 billion peoples who fought in the war and when viSH`ANu-DEv in His 8th avtaar of SHrii kRUSH`AN left pRUthi-lok (one of the 14 domains of existence in our bRH`maaND where mortals reside) to return to His domain called vaikuNth...... The majority of the 1.7 billion peoples killed were the ones who were living their lives against the principles of DHARm and thus were causing unbearable grief to the pRUthvi-DEvii who is named in vED as the sustainer of all in pRUthvi-lok ...... .. In puraaAN it states that star of DHRUv and which the current humanity calls Northern Star connects all creations in our bRH`maaND with "superstrings" with each other and with DHRUv to sustain them as per DHARm and also with this "superstring" connections makes all creations revolve around DHRUv.... The above knowledge of DHRUv role in the grand plan of the creation and existence of our bRH`maaND starts to make one wonder about the following:  1.  The current search by astro-physicists and cosmologists of the multi-dimensional (presently counting 10 dimensions) existence through the "superstring" theory....which strings are theorized to connect all the dimensions with one another and interconnect all in each dimensions of multi-universe existence hypothesis.... 2. And  about quantum physics where all particles in an a single atom are all connected to exists in individual continual motion and frequency of vibration at root level for definite purposes with practically inexhaustible energy for keeping the atom intact...where does that energy come from....  This DHRUv was blessed and ordained to perform this sevaa (voluntary service) to all creations because of his tps`y (penance) he did at the age of 5 to understand directly from Creator bRH`m Himself why his King-father's first queen suffering from jealously of her co-wife would not let DHRUv sit in his father's lap just because he was born of the second queen... PVAF invites you to share your KNOWLEDE on the topic including relation of vED Knowledge and current science knowledge which is constantly evolving with proving that the previous knowledge was wrong or insufficient....To share away your brainstorming please click POST A COMMENT sign in the header of this news item and write away OR click HERE to send your writing by email to be posted on this knowledge sharing website....KNOWLEDGE SHARING TO MAKE TOMORROW HAPPIER THAN TODAY as KNOWLEDGE is the only thing that can alleviate if not eliminate all human suffering termed as DuKH as per SHRii kRUSH`AN in BHgvD gitaa...... (The above writing is supplied by Champaklal Dajibhai Mistry of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as his vED knowledge-sharing contribution to the PVAF's primary mandate of its existence -  KNOWLEDGE SHARING AMONG ALL HUMUANITY for a happier tomorrow than today because one has a little bit more knowledge to understand oneself and all that oneself co-exists with....)    Please click on the next line to read reports from newspapers and NASA on this important discovery to understand space in which we exist and on a daily level the weather we experience......

‘Magnetic ropes’ link northern lights to sun Scientists capture ‘spectacular eruptions’ of aurora borealis NASA satellites map 3-D structure for first time Edmonton Journal: December 12, 2007: Randy Boswell NASA scientists say they’ve made key discoveries about the northern lights, including the presence of “magnetic ropes” linking the Earth’s upper atmosphere to the sun. The discoveries were reported after a fleet of satellites and ground-based stations captured “spectacular eruptions” of the mysterious phenomenon above Canada earlier this year. The findings, revealed Tuesday at meetings of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, follow the February deployment of five satellites dedicated to studying the aurora borealis, in concert with a network of 20 ground observatories across northern Canada and Alaska. The discoveries began in March, when a powerful space “substorm” — streams of energy from the sun interacting with Earth’s magnetic field — illuminated previously unrecorded events in the planet’s upper atmosphere. The storm, lasting about two hours, took place above Canada and Alaska. “The substorm behaved quite unexpectedly,” said Vassilis Angelopoulos, a University of California researcher leading an international team that includes several Canadian scientists. “The auroras surged westward twice as fast as anyone thought possible, crossing 15 degrees of longitude in less than one minute. The storm traversed an entire polar time zone, or 400 miles (640 kilometres), in 60 seconds flat. Dr Angelopoulos estimated the storm's power was equal to the energy released by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.” In an interview with CanWest News Service, Angelopoulos said the storm offered the first clear evidence of colossal magnetic columns — long theorized by scientists but never before seen — that run between Earth and the sun and offer a “conduit for energy” that manifests as bursts of northern lights. “The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth’s upper atmosphere directly to the sun,” said David Sibeck at NASA’s Maryland-based Goddard Space Flight Center. A band of Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, stretches over the Chugach Range near Palmer, Alaska in this February file photo. Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of the spectacular color displays seen in the northern lights. (AP Photo/Bob Martinson, FILE) "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras," said Dr Sibeck. "THEMIS encountered its first magnetic rope on May 20. It was very large, about as wide as Earth, and located approximately 40,000 miles above Earth's surface in a region called the magnetopause." In March this year satellites and ground-based instruments from THEMIS observed an eruption in the Northern Lights over Canada. This substorm was witnessed moving at over 39,000 kilometres per hour and it is estimated that its total power consumption during its two-hour life was a colossal five hundred thousand billion Joules (press release, coverage in AFP, Wired, National Geographic, Space.com). In a statement, the team described the ropes as “a twisted bundle of magnetic fields organized much like the twisted hemp of a mariner’s rope. Spacecraft have detected hints of these ropes before, but a single spacecraft was insufficient to map their 3-D structure.” Now, the NASA project’s five satellites “were able to perform the feat.” Another team member, University of California’s Jonathan Eastwood, told CanWest News that a later storm on July 4 exploded with an energy equivalent to “100 million fireworks” and provided scientists with “unprecedented detail” in their observations of the northern lights. The NASA project is called THEMIS for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms. The leader of the Canadian branch of the project is University of Calgary scientist Eric Donovan, and 16 Canadian sites — including Prince George, B.C., and Whitehorse, Yukon, — host monitoring stations that share data with the orbiting spacecraft. NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries About Northern Lights NEWS FROM NASA's main AGU 2007 page: (Click HERE for THEMIS web site at Nasa for detailed information) A fleet of NASA spacecraft, launched less than eight months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power. NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission observed the dynamics of a rapidly developing substorm, confirmed the existence of giant magnetic ropes and witnessed small explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field. The findings will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December. The discoveries began on March 23, when a substorm erupted over Alaska and Canada, producing vivid auroras for more than two hours. A network of ground cameras organized to support THEMIS photographed the display from below while the satellites measured particles and fields from above. “The substorm behaved quite unexpectedly," says Vassilis Angelopoulos, the mission's principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The auroras surged westward twice as fast as anyone thought possible, crossing 15 degrees of longitude in less than one minute. The storm traversed an entire polar time zone, or 400 miles, in 60 seconds flat.” Photographs taken by ground cameras and NASA's Polar satellite (also supporting the THEMIS mission) revealed a series of staccato outbursts each lasting about 10 minutes. Angelopoulos said that some of the bursts died out while others reinforced each other and went on to become major onsets. Angelopoulos was quite impressed with the substorm's power and he estimated the total energy of the two-hour event at five hundred thousand billion Joules. That's equivalent to the energy of one magnitude 5.5 earthquake . Where does all that energy come from? THEMIS may have found the answer. "The satellites have found evidence of magnetic ropes connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," said David Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras." A magnetic rope is a twisted bundle of magnetic fields organized much like the twisted hemp of a mariner's rope. Spacecraft have detected hints of these ropes before, but a single spacecraft was insufficient to map their 3D structure. This is an artist's concept of the THEMIS main orbits, represented by red ovals. Blue lines represent the Earth's magnetic field. The white flash represents energy released during substorms. The THEMIS spacecraft will line up at midnight over the United States every four days. The distances range from about half the distance to the moon to about sixth of the distance to the moon. This position will help scientists pinpoint exactly when and where substorms occur. Print-resolution copy Credit: NASA  THEMIS' five identical micro-satellites were able to perform the feat.br /> "THEMIS encountered its first magnetic rope on May 20," said Sibeck. "It was very large, about as wide as Earth, and located approximately 40,000 miles (70,000 km) above Earth's surface in a region called the magnetopause." The magnetopause is where the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field meet and push against one another like sumo wrestlers locked in combat. There, the rope formed and unraveled in just a few minutes, providing a brief but significant conduit for solar wind energy. THEMIS also has observed a number of small explosions in Earth's magnetic bow shock. "The bow shock is like the bow wave in front of a boat," explained Sibeck. "It is where the solar wind first feels the effects of Earth's magnetic field. Sometimes a burst of electrical current within the solar wind will hit the bow shock and—Bang! We get an explosion." The THEMIS satellites are equipped with instruments that measure ions, electrons and electromagnetic radiation in space. The satellites will line up along the sun-Earth line next February to perform their key measurements. Researchers expect to observe, for the first time, the origin of substorm onsets in space and learn more about their evolution. Scientists from the US, Canada, Western Europe, Russia and Japan are contributing to the scientific investigation over the next two years. THEMIS is the fifth medium-class mission under NASA's Explorer Program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world-class scientific investigations within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas. The Explorer Program Office at Goddard manages the NASA-funded THEMIS mission. The University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory is responsible for project management, science and ground-based instruments, mission integration and post launch operations. ATK (formerly Swales Aerospace), Beltsville, Md., built the THEMIS probes.

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