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Space weather
The US Los Alamos laboratory has obtained its first accurate readings of the polar wind which flows off the Earth. Its POLAR satellite's plasma-source instrument emits xenon ions to neutralise the plasma flowing past the spacecraft. Monitoring interference caused by polar and solar winds, major factors in "space weather", is ...
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