NASA Intern Has Discovered A New Aurora Shaped Like A Seashell
Last summertime , Jennifer Briggs , a cathartic student at Pepperdine University , was interning at NASA when she discovered a trade name - young interaction in Earth ’s magnetosphere that produced a dead - lived aurora reminding Briggs of a seashell . The aurorean seashell is twisty , evidence of a significant disturbance in Earth ’s magnetic field . Briggs worked with NASA scientists David Sibeck , Marcos Silveira , and her wise man Gerard Fasel to understand its reason ....