Plasma Surprises: NASA Discovers Alphabet Soup Shapes in Earth’s Ionosphere – What This Means for Space Weather
Boulder, Colorado – NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the ionosphere, shedding light on the mysterious plasma formations that could revolutionize space weather forecasts and enhance radio communications. The findings from the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) imaging instrument have unveiled unprecedented X and C-shaped structures in the ionosphere, challenging previous understandings of atmospheric dynamics. Previous studies have shown that solar storms and volcanic eruptions can lead to the merging …