
The underlying physical process that creates striking ‘breaking wave’ cloud patterns in our atmosphere also frequently opens the gates to high-energy solar wind plasma that perturbs Earth’s magnetic field, or magnetosphere, which protects us from cosmic radiation. The discovery was made by space physicists.
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