Its density increases during the day as its molecules become ... signals to travel over long distances. The ionosphere’s density then falls at night — and that's where GOLD comes in.

We asked whether such a signal could be provided to us from our local, naturally occurring plasma: the ionosphere. Given that it is extremely well monitored and understood, it seemed to us like a ...

Related stories The ionosphere is constantly in flux Each day, the ionosphere is created ... Baumgardner said. Then, each night, when the sun's rays are absent, those excited atoms recombine ...

Each day, radio signals from key communications ... But as the sun fades away at night, the ionosphere thins out and the once-charged particles settle down and become neutral particles, according ...

The "Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center" (IMPC) developed and operated by DLR provides a near real-time information and data service on the current state of the ionosphere, related forecasts ...