mechanism that triggers substorms in space


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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a3a54c7-74ea-448c-9d1c-b57b9a9160f3/386CF0F1-BF16-46CD-8DC5-626540E7B8AB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml" href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.berkeley.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml"><P><SPAN class="dateline">BERKELEY</SPAN> — A year and a half after
							   the launch of a fleet of five satellites to probe storms in the
							   Earth's magnetic shield, scientists have accomplished the mission's
							   primary objective: to identify the mechanism that triggers substorms
							   in space. 
				             </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml"><P>Such storms can wreak havoc on satellites, power grids, and
							   communications systems, and lead to the explosive release
							   of energy that causes the spectacular brightening
							   of the aurora borealis, or northern lights.
				    </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.berkeley.edu/img/068B8CDD-DF30-4EA2-A7B5-36ED1F26B3E5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml"><SPAN class="caption">THEMIS observations confirm for the first time
			that magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail triggers
			the onset of activity in the auroras, putting a shimmer in the colorful
			curtain of the northern and southern lights. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/07/24_reconn.shtml">"Our data show clearly and for the first time that magnetic reconnection is the trigger," </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/386CF0F1-BF16-46CD-8DC5-626540E7B8AB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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