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WATCH: A Spacecraft Is Launching to Study How Earth Survives Solar Storms


A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield.

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