Static Landscape
Charged Particles provides a visualization of static electrical fields. Tilting the glass covered dish full of steel shot generates a charge which organize the steel into patterns along static electrical field lines. The process is analogous to the way the solar wind charges the soil of the moon, Mars, and other bodies which are not protected by a magnetic field.
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