|Investigating Magnetic Storms|
In this activity, students use an internet archive of data on the Earth's magnetic field to study the frequency of magnetic storms of different intensities during the year, and during the solar sunspot cycle. The archive contains values of the Kp scale, an index of how disturbed the Earth's magnetic field was, on average, over each three-hour period of the day. They will select their data, construct a bar graph with it, and answer questions on what their data reveals.
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Adobe Acrobat reader
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DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-008-028
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Author: Dr Sten Odenwald
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Image for Magnetopause-to-Auroral Global Exploration