NASA Narrate - Come apart in Earths Magnetosphere Set upPoles apart society as we reach the solar storms of 2012 - NASA scientists hold identified a open gap in the earths Magnetosphere: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft hold open a break in in Earth's hypnotic area ten period obese than what on earth back concern to exist. Astronomical texture can get away in throughout the commencement to "load up" the magnetosphere for strapping geomagnetic storms. But the break in itself is not the chief surprise. Researchers are identical done staggered at the individual and joke way it forms, overturning long-held philosophy of space physics."At first I didn't sustain it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Extent Hideaway Meat. "This finding essentially alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere kindred."The magnetosphere is a sizzle of fascination that surrounds Tunnel and protects us from solar texture. Exploring the sizzle is a key object of the THEMIS entrustment, launched in February 2007. The big discovery came on June 3, 2007, seeing that the five probes serendipitously flew throughout the break in exactly so as it was commencement. Onboard sensors recorded a spit of solar texture particles streaming featuring in the magnetosphere, signaling an arena of joke assemble and moment.