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A NASA rocket launched from near the North Pole confirms Earth’s ambipolar electric field

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NASA 's Endurance mission has confirmed there is an electric field on Earth .

The electric field may be responsible for the polar wind, an outflow of particles from Earth ’s atmosphere into space.

The field is a key driver in propelling ions out of the atmosphere and into space, shaping the composition of the magnetosphere.

The discovery of the field could help explain planetary evolution.