SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 15 (TNSres) -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release:

Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth's magnetotail, the elongated portion of the planet's magnetosphere trailing away from the Sun. Using data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, SwRI scientists are examining the nature of substorms, fleeting disturbances in the magnetotail that release energy and often cause aurorae.

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