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- The magnetosphere is thus a cavity where we are shielded from the solar wind.
- Electric and magnetic forces - tied to electric currents - control the behavior of charged particles.
In the 1830s a world-wide network of magnetic observatories was established and showed that, occasionally, magnetic disturbances occurred on a global scale. Von Humboldt named them magnetic storms.
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