As noted earlier Kristian Birkeland, reporting in 1903 on his expeditions to the auroral zone, proposed that magnetic disturbances accompanying the aurora were caused by large electric currents flowing down the length of auroral formations. ... Some scientists disagreed with Birkeland and claimed the electrojets did not connect to space but instead their entire circuit lay inside the ionosphere, like that of other ionospheric currents known at the time, believed to be caused by atmospheric tides. ...

... Future seminars . P a s t seminars . ... Almost monoenergetic ions – new source of information on the dynamics of space plasma current sheets " . ... Lutsenko (IKI) . ... Such spectra shapes were observed tens of years in multiple experiments on spacecrafts and followed from current theoretical models. ... This hypothesis explained all main observed AMI features. ... The AMI discovery gives a new support of H. Alfv n ideas on a great role of electric currents in a space plasma. ...