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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists conducted lab experiments to address a mystery about the origins of frozen ...

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(Image credit: NASA) Scientists in China have developed a new way of spotting massive, invisible "plasma bubbles" lurking in Earth's upper atmosphere.