Leak Found in Earth’s Atmosphere
Posted on August 31, 2008 at 10:27 am.
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ESA’s formation-flying quartet of satellites, Cluster, has discovered that Earth’s atmosphere is constantly leaking Oxygen into Space. Charged oxygen ions, flowing outwards from the polar regions into space. The data collected by Cluster from 2001 to 2003 is used to find the phenomenon. Compared to the Earth’s stock of the life-supporting gas, the amount escaping is negligible.
Image Credit : http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQ8LKRQJF_index_0.html
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