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MAVEN Detects Rare Atmospheric Effect on Mars

New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect -- a phenomenon once thought unique to Earth’s magnetosphere, in which charged particles are squeezed like toothpaste coming out of a tube along magnetic structures called flux tubes -- is also reshaping the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere.

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