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Tereza Pultarova

Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras

An image of the Northern lights over Bloomington, Indiana.

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space.

They hope the project will help shed light on some little-explored processes taking place inside our planet's gaseous shroud, including the magnificent northern lights.

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