National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
Sun-Earth Day 2010: Magnetic Storms
Magnetic Games!
- Concentration
- Can you match all the tiles? Try your hand at Concentration!
- Magnetic Pinball/Flipper Magnetico
- Experiment with charged particles in a "pinball game" to predict the path of moving charged particles with/without the influence of a magnetic field. If you win, you'll be treated to movie that explains how this concept helps IBEX make measurements.
- Magnetic Bowling!
- Knock down pins with a proton ball in a magnetized lane: position the electrical wires to create the correct magnetic fields to keep the proton in the lane. Nail all the pins and move on to the next lane.
- Magnetic Golf
- Sink a putt by guiding a proton golf balls through the magnetic and electric fields around it.
NASA Fact
A major solar 'superstorm' such as the one in 1859 could cost $30 billion a day to the US electrical power grid, and up to $70 billion to the satellite industry.