Observations by NASA's THEMIS spacecraft indicate that these magnets are magnetic portals open dozens of times every day. They are usually located a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth.
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"We call it the X-points or electron diffusion region," said physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. "They will be for the earth's magnetic field is connected to the Sun's magnetic field, creating a path of our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."
To follow up on the results of research Scudder and colleagues, NASA is planning a mission called "MMS" – Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, to be launched in 2014 to study the phenomenon portal. Four of the MMS spacecraft will be deployed in the Earth's magnetosphere, looking and observing how the portals work.
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