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Susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Highly Elliptical Orbit of TWINS

Caption: The highly elliptical orbit of TWINS offers a good view of the ring current -- a hula hoop of charged particles that encircles Earth.

Credit: J. Goldstein/SWRI

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