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Solar storms impact upper atmosphere
20 Oct 2022
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Title: Solar storms impact upper atmosphere
Description: Energy interacting with Earth’s atmosphere during solar storms increases the Poynting flux, heating the atmosphere to cause density perturbations. The solar destruction event of Starlink satellites was caused by this change in density.
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