NASA scientists have discovered an electric field around the Earth that creates a polar wind that ejects various particles into the atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
NASA scientists have made this revolutionary discovery and have named it the ambipolar electric field. The idea of its existence came up 60 years ago but now it has been confirmed.
A study published in a foreign journal confirmed that this electric field has significant effects on Earth’s climate, particularly at the poles.
According to NASA, this electric field plays a fundamental role in driving the polar winds.
These polar winds eject particles over the Earth’s poles and then transport these particles into the upper atmosphere.
It likely played an important role in the evolution of our planet, but much remains to be known about it.
The presence of this electric field was confirmed by NASA’s Endurance mission rocket.
Understanding the evolution and complex motions of Earth’s atmosphere will provide us with clues to the history of our planet, while also helping to understand why life does not exist on other planets.
Something pulls these particles out of the atmosphere, like a conveyor belt that lifts the atmosphere into space, the researchers said.
For this purpose, in 2016, researchers began developing a rocket that could test the very small voltages in the atmosphere. This NASA mission was launched from Svalbard, an island in Norway.
The island is a few hundred miles from the North Pole and researchers believed that it was the only place in our world where the presence of an ambipolar electric field could be identified.
According to the researchers, this electric field is formed by electrons, which are high in the air due to their thermal pressure.
The rocket flew 477 miles above the Earth’s surface and fell into the Greenland Sea 19 minutes after launch.
Data collected by the rocket at 322 miles above the Earth’s surface revealed an electric charge with a power of just 0.55 volts.
Because this electric field was just discovered, researchers can’t say for sure how much it played a role in the formation of Earth.
But they believe that it is probably because of this electric field that water still exists on Earth, while other planets like Venus and Mars have dried up.
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2024-10-08 03:04:06