But because the Sun plays such a huge role in the ionosphere's structure, the sub-layer is known to change between day and night: The portion of the ionosphere that faces the Sun thickens as more ...

The ionosphere is full of electrons and atoms that repeatedly separate and recombine during the regular day-night cycle. Solar eclipses interrupt this pattern, and their effect is not fully ...

The Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) is based at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation in ...