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Sun storm squeezes Earth's ionosphere

A spacecraft has gathered the first direct evidence that a storm originating from the sun can squeeze Earth's ionosphere, ejecting charged particles from the planet's upper atmosphere into space.

References:

Moore, T.E. 1998. Solar wind squeezes some of Earth's atmosphere into space. NASA News Release. December.

Sources:

Thomas E. Moore
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 2, January 9, 1999, p. 30. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.


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