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Most of the universe is made of matter in the plasma state, where matter is so energetic that positive and negative charges are free to move separately. First characterized by Irving Langmuir (Langmuir 1929), Electric Double Layers (EDL) exist naturally in plasma. The EDL is like a battery: positive and negative charges are separated and remain apa...
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... data will be taken primary from NASA CDAWeb, the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center data portal, which supports interactive plotting of data from multiple instruments on multiple NASA/ESA investigations simultaneously (http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp_public/). Initially the Proposal for Study will look at the following Van Allen satellites: EFW, L2 and L3 electric field and velocity; RBSPICE Ion composition and flux Cluster, EFW, electric fields PEACE, RAPID, electron flux Expected large-scale electric structure encompassing Sun and Earth Figure 2 shows a sketch, not to scale, of the proposed main electric features surrounding Earth and Sun. ...
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