More than six decades ago, scientists first became aware of a mysterious phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere. Hypothesized to be a fundamental driver of atmospheric dynamics, now for the first time, a team of rocket scientists at NASA says they have finally succeeded in detecting it.
The breakthrough discovery, made as a part of NASA’s Endurance mission, has now confirmed the existence of Earth’s ambipolar electric field, which reveals a planetary-scale force that governs phenomena known as atmospheric escape, and sheds new light on the evolution of our planet.
The ambipolar electric field was first theorized to exist more than half a century ago, playing a crucial role in planetary phenomena along similar lines to gravity and the Earth’s magnetic fields. The Endurance mission’s new findings help to demonstrate the long-sought electric field’s influence on what scientists call the “polar wind,” which describes an ongoing outflow of charged particles that empty into space above Earth’s poles.
The discovery will provide researchers with new approaches toward understanding atmospheric processes that occur on Earth, as well as on other planets.
Discovery in Earth’s High Atmosphere
The long mysterious ambipolar electric field, which is a weak but also a fundamental force governing behavior of the planet’s upper atmosphere, was…
Source thedebrief.org
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