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Atmospheric heating with solar storms can also occur. This then places additional drag on satellites causing their orbits to degrade. In addition to Earth's magnetic field, there is a toroid-shaped region of cool plasma which helps slow the reconnection process of our magnetic field in that of the sun. The swarm wall is predicted to augment this process. 400 tons of this is expected to reduce geomagnetic storm strength by about 60%. So that's referred to as the plasma sphere. This plasma creates a drag that effectively slows the reconnection of the magnetic field. Magnetic reconnection. This is where opposing magnetic field snaps. They kind of snap together so you've got the North.