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And solar storms, they also pose a couple of threats to satellites. First, the magnetic activity can induce currents within a satellite's circuitry, and that spells disaster. Second, the energy carried by a charged particle can cause our atmosphere to expand. Tom may have some additional on that if he wants to share it later. And so what that does is it increases the drag on a satellite, and some of these satellites will then... Some can compensate, though, while players will avoid the additional drag. Others get caught up in that and get pulled back down the earth.