Solar Wind Putting the Squeeze on Earth's Atmosphere
News story originally written on December 10, 1998
NASA scientists used the Polar spacecraft to show that air was leaving our
atmosphere.
Solar storms push part
of our air into space.
Scientists saw that a lot of air was pushed into space right after a
coronal mass ejection. This happened in
September, 1998. But don't worry--we have more than enough air!
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