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Plasma fountain. The Earth's plasma fountain showing oxygen helium and hydrogen ions that gush into space from regions near the Earth's poles The faint yellow gas shown above the north pole represents gas lost from Earth into space the green gas is the aurora borealisor plasma energy pouring back into the atmosphere gsfc nasa gov