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Gas bubbles between Earth and sun

Berkeley, USA - The phenomenon was found out thanks to ESA satellites

The four Cluster satellites by ESA, European Space Agency, and the two ones of Double Star mission, result of ESA-China cooperation, allowed the discovery of a particular phenomenon which is showed in the "Physics of Plasmas Journal" by George Parks from Berkeley University, California. When an Earth magnetic field meets gas currents coming from the sun, thousand overheated gas bubbles are generated...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 143722
Rome, Italy, 06/29/2006 22:18
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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