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We finally know why mysterious waves appear to survive the journey through Earth's turbulent 'shock' region
Waves that are created as solar winds pummel Earth's magnetic field appear to escape the turbulent region around our planet, but how they do so has remained a mystery. Now, a research team has discovered how these waves seem to survive: They continue past the leading "foreshock" region to an area called the "shock" and then create "clone" waves with identical qualities, thus explaining how they appear to cross this region in near-Earth space.
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