The electrolyte carries electrically charged particles from one electrode to the other.

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These craft will study the interaction between the solar wind (the breeze of electrically charged particles emitted by the sun) and the earth's magnetic field.

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This is where the "wind" of electrically charged particles coming off the Sun is slowed by pressure from the sparse gas found between the stars.

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The field bends the flight-paths of electrically charged particles.

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The natural phenomenon can be seen in the northernmost regions of the world, including Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, and is the result of electrically charged particles colliding in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Magnetic fields in this swirling mass are twisted into a kind of "magnetic spaghetti, " and electrically charged particles squirt out through this spaghetti at nearly the speed of light, blasting out into the universe across thousands of light-years.

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But because these particles are electrically charged, they also interact with the Earth's magnetic field.

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WIMPS. The more massive members of each lepton pair are the electrically charged electron (the outer constituent of atoms) and two other particles that resemble electrons in all measurable ways except that they are heavier, and are unstable in today's modern universe.

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