We asked whether such a signal could be provided to us from our local, naturally occurring plasma: the ionosphere. Given that it is extremely well monitored and understood, it seemed to us like a ...

More information: Jamie Smith et al, Mapping the ionosphere with millions of phones, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08072-x Provided by Nature Publishing Group ...

SpaceX rocket launches are punching holes in part of Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, and it's a beautiful sight to behold. The holes appear as bright red blobs in the sky. Some are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed auroras on Neptune for the first time. These are only faint and occur in an ...

This form of lighting, known as a gigantic jet, is a type of discharge that occurs between thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere, 50 miles up, according to NASA. Gigantic jets differ from ...

The Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) is based at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation in ...

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This discovery challenges previous assumptions about how plasma, electrically charged gas, behaves in the lunar environment and is significant for future lunar missions.