Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field Discovered
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 16:07
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. The size of the opening and the strange way it forms could overturn long-held ideas of space physics.
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