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The four Cluster spacecraft. Flying in formation around the Earth, they relay detailed information about how solar wind affects our planet in 3D (credit: ESA)

Plasma shock waves
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Launched by two Russian rockets in the summer 2000, the four Cluster spacecraft then used their own thrusters to get to an elliptical orbit with a closest distance to the Earth of nearly 20 000 km, and getting as far away as nearly 120 000 km: nearly a third of the distance to th...

Article Posted: 15-02-2007


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