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New research suggests that swirling designs on the dusty lunar surface might be the product of electric fields generated by pockets of magnetic bubbles.
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looking at these strange, mysterious structures since the invention of the telescope
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long suspected that weak magnetic fields near the moon’s surface might shape the looping patterns
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created a scaled-down laboratory version to find out if man-made magnetic bubbles could also deflect rushing rivers of particles
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used a device called a solar wind tunnel to shoot a jet of blazing particles down a tube
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a thin electric field formed around the magnet, shielding it — and anything behind it — from the scorching flow
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if a tiny magnet — only slightly larger than an eraser tip — could make a protective electric skin, the moon’s much larger magnetic bubbles might also be able to
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