Word: gartlein
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Northern Visitors. Dr. Carl W. Gartlein of Cornell told the physicists how he'd taken spectrograms of auroras (northern lights) and found that some of their light comes from hydrogen ions (protons...
...auroras are connected with sun spots and other eruptions on the sun. They were pretty sure that particles of some sort, driven out of the sun, touch off the northern lights when they hit the earth's atmosphere. But they did not know what the particles were. Dr. Gartlein is sure that they are solar protons hitting the outer fringes of the atmosphere at about 300 miles per second. When they capture electrons from atmospheric atoms, they give off a little light. Most of the aurora's light, however, comes from oxygen and nitrogen atoms which the solar...
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