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  2. Rubidium standard - Wikipedia

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    Commercial rubidium clocks are less accurate than caesium atomic clocks, which serve as primary frequency standards, so a rubidium clock is usually used as a secondary frequency standard. Commercial rubidium frequency standards operate by disciplining a crystal oscillator to the rubidium hyperfine transition of 6.8 GHz ( 6 834 682 610 .904 Hz ).

  3. Birkeland current - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of the Birkeland or Field-Aligned Currents and the ionospheric current systems they connect to, Pedersen and Hall currents. [1]A Birkeland current (also known as field-aligned current, FAC) is a set of electrical currents that flow along geomagnetic field lines connecting the Earth's magnetosphere to the Earth's high latitude ionosphere.

  4. Magnetohydrodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Schematic view of the different current systems which shape the Earth's magnetosphere. In many MHD systems most of the electric current is compressed into thin nearly-two-dimensional ribbons termed current sheets. [10] These can divide the fluid into magnetic domains, inside of which the currents are relatively weak.

  5. Time and frequency transfer - Wikipedia

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    In a two-way time transfer system, the two peers will both transmit and receive each other's messages, thus performing two one-way time transfers to determine the difference between the remote clock and the local clock. [4]: 118 The sum of these time differences is the round-trip delay between the two nodes. It is often assumed that this delay ...

  6. Ring current - Wikipedia

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    The ring current system consists of a band, at a distance of 3 to 8 R E, [1] which lies in the equatorial plane and circulates clockwise around the Earth (when viewed from the north). The particles of this region produce a magnetic field in opposition to the Earth's magnetic field and so an Earthly observer would observe a decrease in the ...

  7. Climate Clock ticks down: Five years left to limit ...

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    Beyond 1.5C, scientists say impacts of the climate crisis will become more severe and destabilize the planet even further Climate Clock ticks down: Five years left to limit temperature rise to 1 ...

  8. Ionospheric dynamo region - Wikipedia

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    In the height region between about 85 and 200 km altitude on Earth, the ionospheric plasma is electrically conducting. Atmospheric tidal winds due to differential solar heating or due to gravitational lunar forcing move the ionospheric plasma against the geomagnetic field lines thus generating electric fields and currents just like a dynamo coil moving against magnetic field lines.

  9. Magnetic sail - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic sail animation. A magnetic sail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion where an onboard magnetic field source interacts with a plasma wind (e.g., the solar wind) to form an artificial magnetosphere (similar to Earth's magnetosphere) that acts as a sail, transferring force from the wind to the spacecraft requiring little to no propellant as detailed for each proposed magnetic ...