Magnetosphere by Rob Rey
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Art Details
| Title: | Magnetosphere |
| Date Created: | 8/2022 |
| Copyright: | © Rob Rey |
| Genre: | Unpublished Art |
| Mediums: | Oils |
| Views: | 323 |
| Posted: | 11/3/2022 |
About the Artist
Rob Rey
Member Since October 2013
Projects: Abend Gallery, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Upper Deck, Star Wars Trading Card Game, HEX Online Card Game
Location: Centennial, CO
Description
30 x 24 inches In addition to the beneficial warmth and light we receive daily, our sun expels a constant wave of dangerous charged particles called the solar wind. When solar storms occur, flares and coronal mass ejections can be thrown our way at speeds of millions of kilometers per hour. Luckily, movements within earths molten metal core generate a protective magnetic shield around our home planet. Without our magnetosphere to protect us, the solar wind may have long ago stripped away our atmosphere, leaving Earth looking much more like Mars looks today: barren, dry, and lifeless. Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about our magnetosphere, but it’s one of the many extraordinary things that make life possible on our little world.
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