NASA Rocket Confirms Existence of Earth’s Hidden Electric Field — VOA Learning English
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The American space agency NASA says it has confirmed the long-suspected existence of an electric field that surrounds Earth.
A rocket named Endurance gathered the information that led to the confirmation. Endurance launched from Norway on May 11, 2022. The launch site was the closest possible to the North Pole.
Endurance reached a top altitude of 768 kilometers. The rocket captured data on the electric field during its 19-minute flight before splashing down in the sea, off the coast of Greenland.
NASA says that since the 1960s, spacecraft flying over Earth’s poles have recorded collections of particles flowing from the planet’s atmosphere into space. But the cause of these outflows long…
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