Shocking recipe for making killer electrons
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 09:21
in Astronomy & Space
Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That’s the shocking recipe revealed by ESA’s Cluster mission.
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