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Earth’s Foreshock: A Natural Cosmic Particle Accelerator Found

Syllabus: GS-3: Scientific Innovations & Discoveries Focus: Recent data from NASA’s MMS, THEMIS, and ARTEMIS missions revealed a large-scale energy transfer process in Earth’s foreshock. Scientists discovered that collisionless shock waves in this region accelerate electrons to extreme speeds, solving a long-standing astrophysical mystery about high-energy cosmic particle acceleration. Understanding a Cosmic Mystery Unveiled: Scientists …