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Upper‐atmosphere electrons

SEP 01, 1965

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047686

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Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley are using a combination of balloon and rocket flights to gather data on microbursts of electrons that occur above the earth’s atmosphere. The microbursts last about a quarter second and appear and disappear in a rhythmic pattern.

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Volume 18, Number 9

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