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Something happening in the “ignorosphere”.
Jan. 29, 2020: A new type of aurora is rippling across Arctic skies. Citizen scientists who discovered it nicknamed it “The Dunes” because of its resemblance to desert sand dunes. A paper published in the Jan. 28th issue of AGU Advances describes the new form and the unexpected physics that causes it.
Above: Aurora dunes over Laitila, Finland, on Oct. 7, 2018. Credit: Pirjo Koski. [more] Dune-shaped auroras form in a narrow altitude range 80 km to 120 km above Earth’s surface. Turns out, this is an extremely hard-to-study layer of Earth’s atmosphere. It’s too high for weather balloons, and too low for rockets.
“Due to the difficulties in measuring atmospheric phenomena between 80 and 120 km, we sometimes call this region ‘the ignorosphere‘,” says Minna Palmroth, Professor of Computational Space Physics at the University of Helsinki and the lead author of the study.
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Ignorosphere is not greek, obviously. Has to be greek.
Who can solve the mystery of the two hemispheres?
https://phzoe.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/north-and-south-hemisphere/
Re. ‘North and South Hemisphere’ – for now I’ll go with Erl Happ’s comments on the blog.
The N:S temp ratio is 12:11