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Scientists Discover ‘Space Hurricane’ High Above The Earth – HuffPost
The mass of plasma roiled above the magnetic North Pole for about eight hours, raining electrons instead of water.
Scientists have identified a “space hurricane” an approximately 620-mile-wide whirling mass of plasma in the upper atmosphere above the magnetic North Pole.
The hurricane occurred in August 2014, but scientists didn’t know it had happened until more recently, when an international team of researchers noticed the phenomenon while studying satellite observations from that time period. The discovery, the first of its kind, was published last month in the journal Nature Communications.
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