Muon telescope indicates a crack in Earth’s magnetic shield
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
The GRAPES-3 muon telescope located at TIFR’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays of about 20 GeV, on 22 June 2015 lasting for two hours. The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers […]