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"textContent": "Charged particles in Mars’s atmosphere disrupt the relentless flow of the solar wind, helping to form the Martian magnetotail. New observations may improve scientists’ understanding of the Martian magnetotail. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio",
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