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Cluster and Double Star witness a new facet of Earth’s magnetic behaviour

30 March 2006

Five spacecraft from two ESA missions unexpectedly found themselves engulfed by waves of electrical and magnetic energy as they travelled through Earth’s night-time shadow on 5 August 2004. The data collected by the spacecraft are giving scientists an important clue to the effects of 'space weather' on Earth’s magnetic field.

Read more at www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM92...

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