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This Earth-size generator has been making electricity forever just 100 km above us
07/07/2021 04:15 PM | Click to read full article
The phenomenon, which has largely remained shrouded, could soon be explored as scientists launch a tag team of rockets and satellite to understand how the current is generated in the Ionosphere.
Scientists are set to launch the Dynamo-2 mission, a successor to a previous 2013 flight, that will pierce the atmospheric winds thought to keep the dynamo churning. The tag team will study the process of how electricity is formed there.