All news for December 17, 2010
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A Giant Breach in Earths Magnetic Field, NASA (Dec 17, 2010)
Dec.
16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered
a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything
previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through
the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful
geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest
surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the...