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Earth’s Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant “Chorus”
May 8, 2009 News

from National Geographic
Thousands of miles above Earth, a cosmic chorus is filling the heavens with a mysterious, low frequency “hiss.” That’s the conclusion of scientists studying data from a set of NASA probes designed to monitor substorms — dramatic exchanges of energy among charged particles that spark the auroras at Earth’s poles.

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