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Giant Explosions At Venus, Bigger Than The Entire Planet

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Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth’s magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies, can be so large at Venus that they’re bigger than the entire planet and they can happen multiple times a day.

“Not only are they gigantic,” said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “But as Venus doesn’t have a magnetic field to protect itself, the hot flow anomalies happen right on top of the planet. They could swallow the planet whole.”

Giant perturbations called hot flow anomalies in the solar wind near Venus can pull the upper layers of its atmosphere, the ionosphere, up and away from the surface of the planet.
Image Credit: NASA
Collinson is the first author of a paper on these results that appeared online in the Journal of Geophysical Research in February 2014. The work is based on observations from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express. The results show just how large and how frequent this kind of space weather is at Venus.

Earth is protected from the constant streaming solar wind of radiation by its magnetosphere. Venus, however, has no such luck. A barren, inhospitable planet, with an atmosphere so dense that spacecraft landing there are crushed within hours, Venus has no magnetic protection.

Scientists like to compare the two: What happened differently at Earth to make it into the life-supporting planet it is today? What would Earth be like without its magnetic field?

At Earth, hot flow anomalies do not make it inside the magnetosphere, but they release so much energy just outside that the solar wind is deflected, and can be forced to move back toward the sun. Without a magnetosphere, what happens at Venus is very different.

Venus’s only protection from the solar wind is the charged outer layer of its atmosphere called the ionosphere. A sensitive pressure balance exists between the ionosphere and the solar wind, a balance easily disrupted by the giant energy rush of a hot flow anomaly. The hot flow anomalies may create dramatic, planet-scale disruptions, possibly sucking the ionosphere up and away from the surface of the planet.

› Read more about ESA’s Venus Express mission

Contacts and sources:
Karen C. Fox
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center 


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    • Anonymous

      There’s a lot of hot flow anomalies continuously coming out of Washington DC.

    • Arcturus

      “Giant Explosions At Venus, Bigger Than The Entire Planet”

      It is ON Venus, not AT. Get your prepositions right.

      However, that aside, “Giant perturbations called hot flow anomalies” sounds sexy!

    • taptap

      grammar nazis really bug me, but with that said, the at/on is a semantic and the context in which the story is derived defines the usage. the expolosions do not occur on venus. they occur at venus from an incoming solar wind. more specifically the explosions themself are in space above the ionsphere. now i am sure you will find many grammatical errors heres, thats fine, i was a physics major and detested english/grammar it is not logical and has no universal rules across cultures as does math. i would note my final exam in english was a 5 page run on sentence. i would say i have come a long way since then.

      • Jaydog

        Grammar trolls are the most annoying pricks on this planet and on Venus! :)

      • Common Sense

        A long way…that’s relative to ?

    • TonysTake

      And just when I thought I had kicked my addiction to porn, they come out with this.

    • litereader

      ANOTHER WALT DISNEY PRODUCTION FROM THE BOYS AT NASA FOR THE HERD :shock: …BA BA BAAAAAaaa :lol:

    • Anonymous

      really who cares? nobody alive today will get to actually see any of this or get close to anything like this, why not figure out whats on planet earth first? im not convinced that our elite actually know what they are talking about.. Remember when we first started to look at the moon how many people “saw stuff” .If you read what our top people actually said about the moon and mars then put that into prospective today with the same people and bam , You have just some of the lies that they are tell us.. The whole world is a bunch of scammers, with the best 1′s making tons of money. (our government, military, schools etc…) , i dont trust anyone anymore and i dont believe ALMOST EVERYTHING I READ. Please forget about whats on the other side of the universe and start thinking about whats on this planet and how we can help it.

    • Mellissa

      What a sight that would be, I think it is important we learn as much as we can about our solar system. We are finding they all have effects that could have in the future, or may have happened in the past on our own rocky sphere. Knowledge is power and learning is a joy.

      Thanks for sharing, Alton Parrish :grin:

      • HereAmI

        “Ever learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth”.
        This sums up mankind.
        The reason why we have all the protective layers mentioned in this piece is not coincidental.
        Our world, ( which is not a planet, btw, although everyone speaks of it in these terms ), is a carefully created phenomenon. For the “grammar Nazis ” mentioned above, the word derives from the Greek verb “to wander”; and we do not wander; “The world also is firmly stablished, it cannot be moved”.
        “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God Himself that formed the earth and made it, He hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is none else”.
        This phrase “created it not in vain” is the same phrase used in Genesis ch 1 verse 2, ie “And the earth was without form and void”. God did not create the world in this chaotic state; it became that way, ( “became” is the correct translation of the Hebrew verb “hayah”, which we incorrectly translate “was”) after He had created it, because of the angelic rebellion; whose outbreak in heaven resulted in the subsequent presence of Satan in the Garden of Eden.
        “Every one that is of the truth heareth My voice”.
        If you hear what I am saying, then you are, by definition, of the truth.

        • Mirabolin

          Uh huh. You’re the King of Sham now. :roll:

        • Omega Files

          No Mirabolin.

    • GC-Project

      Emergency Broadcast to ALL patriots and members of the alternative media! Read this and share this story to ROCK the world! /alternative/2014/02/open-letter-to-the-alternative-media-2895742.html

    • Truther444

      Maybe NASA should research Dr. Frank Stranges and his Extra Terrestrial contact from Venus..who’s photo is on the internet with Pres. Eisenhower. This story is on Youtube. Dr. Stranges was investigating reports that ETs from Venus where visiting earth. He was eventually contacted by someone in Washington that invited him to come meet with them. He met with the space people from Venus and the photo of the venesiun space man is on the internet. He looks like us..but looks like a beautiful movie star and has not aged in decades. They live for hundreds or thousands of years. See this story and know that NASA’s story has to be false if they say the planet Venus is not inhabitated and inhospitable to humans. FALSE! I hope their planet is ok, the Venesien people came here to give us healing technology and our president rejected it based on the fact it would destroy our economy…big pharma would be out of business. They were very upset about this. They are still here watching and waiting. Go see Dr. Frank Stranges’s information..about the strangers from Venus

    • blastticket

      Do you notice how the economy is slowly deteriorating while the prison grid is being set up all around us?
      You should take a look at this site:

      http://rikijo.blogspot.com

      It breaks down the entire New World Order satanic agenda.
      -A must read for anyone interested in what’s going on and why.

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