[#Magnetic reconnection] In the Earth's space environment, it connects the interplanetary and terrestrial magnetic fields, allowing #plasma from the #SolarWind to penetrate the #magnetosphere, which is otherwise confined.

The use of machine learning algorithms has enabled the analysis of 20 years of data measured in situ by four different space missions in the Earth's magnetosphere... and confirmed the necessary speed of the magnetic reconnection process: https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2026/01/magnetic-reconnection-models-validated-by-analysis-of-twenty-years-of-measurements/