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Cluster spacecraft encounter Earth's bow shock.
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- Title Cluster spacecraft encounter Earth's bow shock.
- Released 16/11/2011 4:39 pm
- Copyright ESA/AOES Medialab
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Artist's impression of the four Cluster spacecraft flying through the thin layer of Earth's bow shock. The crossing, which took place on 9 January 2005, showed that the shock's width was only about 17 kilometres across.
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