Sonnenwind schuld am Shuttle-Unglück?

[The Rock]

Ungefähr im gleichen Zeitraum ist die Schockfront eingetroffen. Vielleicht hat sie die Systeme etwas "mitgenommen"!?

[Dieter Raith]

Schau mal auf den versch. Magnetometer nach. Aber ne Überlegung war es wert.
Gruß Dieter

[Peter Kuklok]

Hallo,

Cary Oler hat sich dazu im STD-Forum geäussert:

"The disturbances (sudden increases in solar wind velocity, density, etc) are
not translated into similar pressure-pulse-type disturbances inside the
magnetosphere. Instead, the magnetosphere converts these sudden changes in
solar wind quantitites primarily into changes in magnetospheric field
strength. There is no "solar wind" inside the magnetopause boundary of the
Earth's magnetosphere - it's like an island inside the eye of a hurricane.
What you end up with instead are sudden intensifications in the measured
strength of the geomagnetic field (the sudden solar wind velocity increases
compress the magnetosphere which increases field strength). So the arrival
of this disturbance and the disaster with the space shuttle are completely
unrelated."

Quelle: http://www.spacew.com/aurora/forum.html