Chinese
researchers first to recognize lunar flowing signs in the World's plasmasphere
CGTN
According to a report published in the academic journal Nature Physics on Thursday, Chinese researchers have been the first to discover moon tidal signals in the Earth's plasmasphere using data from various spacecraft.
The moon is the Earth's only natural satellite, and as such, the gravity of the moon acts to generate tides in the Earth's crust, oceans, atmosphere, and ionosphere. It has never been investigated before whether there is a lunar tidal effect in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Researchers led by Xiao Chao, a postdoctoral fellow at Shandong University, and He Fei, from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered evidence of "a lunar plasmasphere boundary" by examining "variations in the plasmasphere's boundary location over the past four decades from multi-satellite observations."

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