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    NASA’s TWINS Data Reveals Heated Particle Highway to Earth

    Data from NASA's TWINS and a computer model show how particles are funneled through Earth's magnetosphere.

    By Mara Johnson-Groh NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Up in the night sky, above the auroras and below the Moon, there exists a heated superhighway. Instead of cars though, this transient highway funnels charged particles across hundreds of thousands of miles toward Earth for a few minutes before vanishing. While we can't see it with …

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