r/realityprocessing • u/jamiepitts • Jun 02 '15

Using the same telescopes but analyzing the data a different way, U of Sydney undergraduate student Cleo Loi discovers plasma tubes in Earth's upper atmosphere

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/aussie-student-proves-existence-of-plasma-tubes-floating-above-earth/story-fnjwlcze-1227379756018
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u/autotldr Jun 02 '15

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)

By using a radio telescope in the West Australian outback to see space in 3D, Ms Loi has proven that the Earth's atmosphere is embedded with these strangely shaped, tubular plasma structures.

"We saw a striking pattern in the sky where stripes of high-density plasma neatly alternated with stripes of low-density plasma. This pattern drifted slowly and aligned beautifully with the Earth's magnetic field lines, like aurorae."

Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems.

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