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The spectacular auroral light displays that appear in Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mys
The spectacular auroral light displays that appear in Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mys
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2015-04-24
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The spectacular auroral light displays that appear in Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mysterious phenomena. Now, scientists have data from satellites and ground-based observations from which we know that the auroral brilliance is an immense electrical discharge similar to that occurring in a neon sign.
To understand the cause of auroras, first picture the Earth enclosed by its magnetosphere, a huge region crated by the Earth’s magnetic field. Outside the magnetosphere, blasting, toward the Earth is the solar wind, a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic field. Charged particles in this solar wind speed earthward along the solar wind’s magnetic lines of force with a spiraling motion. The Earth’s magnetosphere is a barrier to solar wind, and forces the charged particles of the solar wind to flow around the magnetosphere itself. But in the polar regions, the magnetic lines of force of the Earth and of the solar wind bunch together. Here many of the solar wind’s charged particles break through the magnetosphere and enter Earth’s magnetic field. They then spiral back and forth between the Earth’s magnetic poles very rapidly. In the polar regions, electrons from the solar wind ionize and excite the atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere, causing them to emit auroral radiations of visual light.
The colors of an aurora depend on the atoms emitting them. The dominant greenish-white light comes from low energy excitation of oxygen atoms. During huge magnetic storms oxygen atoms also undergo high energy excitation and emit a crimson light. Excited nitrogen atoms contribute bands of color varying from blue to violet.
Viewed from outer space, auroras can be seen as dimly glowing belts wrapped around each of the Earth’s magnetic poles. Each aurora hangs like a curtain of light stretching over the polar regions and into the higher latitudes. When the solar flares that result in magnetic storms and auroral activity are very intense, auroral displays may extend as far as the southern regions of the United States. Studies of auroras have given physicists new information about the behavior of plasmas, which has helped to explain the nature of outer space and is being applied in attempts to harness energy from the fusion of atoms.
The passage describes the magnetosphere as a barrier because______.
选项
A、it is strongest in the polar regions and the magnetic lines bunch together
B、it increases the speed of the particles from the solar wind
C、it prevents particles from the solar wind from easily entering the Earth’s atmosphere
D、its position makes it difficult to be observed from the Earth
答案
C
解析
细节推断题。根据题干关键词magnetosphere,a barrier定位到原文第二段第四句。原句中的particles,the solar wind与选项C重现;原句中的flow around the magnetosphere itself与选项C中的prevents…from easily entering the Earth’s atmosphere对应,“让太阳风粒子悬浮在磁力层”而不能进入大气层。故答案为C。
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