Cluster Watches Earth's Leaky Atmosphere
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 09:28
in Astronomy & Space
Oxygen is constantly leaking out of Earth's atmosphere and into space. Now, ESA's formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered the physical mechanism that is driving the escape. It turns out that the Earth's own magnetic field is accelerating the oxygen away.
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