Northern Lights and Solar Sprites #8 Solar Activity and Energy
The students will use a model to demonstrate the restructuring of the magnetic fields on the Suns surface and how this can cause phenomena like coronal mass ejection, filaments, sunspots, and magnetic loops. They will then use photographs of the Suns surface to determine the speeds of the phenomena.

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