THEMIS discovers biggest breach of Earth's solar storm shield

  • Released Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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The latest findings from the THEMIS mission: Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from severe space weather, often develops two holes ten times larger than anything previously though to exist, allowing solar particles in.

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See http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/16dec_giantbreach/

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