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that shields the planet from much of the continual stream of charged solar particles.

The moon's presence in the magnetotail causes some of these broken field lines to reconnect with their opposing broken counterpart. When that happens, hydrogen and oxygen ions that had escaped Earth rush to those reconnected field lines and are accelerated back toward Earth. "It is like the moon is in the shower—a shower of water ions coming back to Earth, falling on the moon's surface," Kletetschka said.

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