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Feb 27 2025SCIENCE

Venus's Magnetic Mysteries: Shocklets and SLAMS

Venus, our neighboring planet, has a magnetic field that's a bit different from Earth's. It's not as strong or as organized. But, it still has some interesting features. One of these is something called the foreshock. This is an area where the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun,

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