Artist's depiction of (a) the magnetic field lines of the Earth's magnetosphere, distorted by the arrival from the Sun of a CME plasma cloud, and (b) fountains of atmospheric gas (blue, bluish-green) streaming upward into the Earth's magnetosphere from above the Earth's north (N) and south (S) magnetic poles.
Image Credit: The scientific team of the Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment (TIDE) onboard the Polar spacecraft and NASA.