◼ Clouds of charged particles stretch a quarter the way to the moon, experts say. - Watts Up With That?
Clouds of “cold plasma” reach from the top of Earth’s atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to new data from a cluster of European satellites.
Earth generates cold plasma—slow-moving charged particles—at the edge of space, where sunlight strips electrons from gas atoms, leaving only their positively charged cores, or nuclei.
◼ Missing Martian Atmosphere: Clues In Earth’s Cold Plasma? - Dave Mosher/National Geographic Daily News (image source)
