Plasma density irregularity is nothing new on Mars, but the accompanying magnetic field irregularity observed on NASA’s MAVEN ...
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Atmospheric sprites have been known for nearly a century, but their origins were a mystery. Now, a team of researchers has evidence that sprites form at plasma irregularities and may be useful in ...
Data from NASA's MAVEN mission reveals that Mars experiences the Zwan-Wolf effect, a magnetic mechanism previously seen only on Earth.
There are only a few so-called "heaters" in the world - special facilities which create artificial plasma processes in the upper atmosphere by heating them. Senior Research Associate of the Near Space ...
Oct. 8 (UPI) --Inside the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, billions of negatively charged electrons bounce freely for long periods of time before being tamed by positive ions. The layer, the ...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with numerous universities and government laboratories studying the effects of dusty plasmas Plasmas are charged dust particles that can ...
In an announcement from China's Institute of Geology and Geophysics, the country's low latitude long range ionospheric radar (LARID) detected plasma bubbles above the Midway Islands and Egypt's Great ...