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The Aurora

The information gathered by rockets and artificial satellites has contributed to a new physical description of the aurora in which the earth's magnetosphere acts like a gigantic cathode-ray tube

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 213 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “The Aurora” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 213 No. 6 (), p. 54
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1265-54