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UK
/ˈaɪənˌɒsfiə/
]
[ US /ˌaɪˈɑnɔsˌfiɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌaɪˈɑnɔsˌfiɹ/ ]
NOUN
- the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons
How To Use ionosphere In A Sentence
- Radio waves then bounce off the bottom of the ionosphere at a higher altitude, giving these waves longer pathways to follow.
- By studying how the ionosphere reacts to the experiments, scientists can begin to understand how it behaves during natural airglow and aurora.
- The ionosphere reflects neither FM radio nor broadcast television, itself a part of the radio spectrum.
- The ionosphere is the layer extending from about 80 km to the outer reaches of the atmosphere that includes charged particles.
- But as I noted above, it drives convection in the ionosphere and this seems to be a major dayside the article context effect. Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today
- This new measurement technique will allow scientists to detect the chemical composition of the Martian atmosphere, ionosphere, and surface.
- This radiation also generates more charged particles in the ionosphere, affecting the reflection and transmission paths of radio frequencies used by satellites and ground-based communications.
- It's like an electron avalanche, he says, that can flood up toward the ionosphere or slide earthward, depending on the electric field direction.
- It attempts to modify the electric currents in the ionosphere during a display of the lights and to observe the results.
- In this paper, we discuss the effect of the Earth's oblateness and ionosphere on the retrieval, and analyze the result of the local curvature correction and the ionosphere calibration.