How to Use ionosphere in a Sentence

ionosphere

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Definition of ionospherenext
  • Thunderstorms and hurricanes can create pressure waves that find their way to the ionosphere.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The experiment also measured a 271% increase in the scale height of the ionosphere.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Caplin said that more research is needed to study the effects of these microwaves on humans, animals, plants, satellites, infrastructure, and the ionosphere.
    — Kat Friedrich, Ars Technica, 15 July 2024
  • At night, with no sun, the ionosphere is much less charged.
    — Chau Tu, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
  • At low frequencies, the ionosphere kicks in and gets in the way.
    — Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Because the pulse takes time to reach the ionosphere, there's a delay between the lightning and the appearance of the elve.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The signal must have been created as the Parker probe cruised through the ionosphere of Venus.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 May 2021
  • Scientists know the ionosphere evolves in a 24-hour process, from day to night, says Frissell.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The ionosphere sits directly above the Earth’s ozone layer.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The launch tested a new system that helps studies of the ionosphere and aurora.
    — Jennifer Calfas, Time, 29 June 2017
  • This is the first detection of metal ions in the ionosphere of any planet other than Earth.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2017
  • But little is known about this boundary zone, called the ionosphere, which begins about 60 miles above Earth.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The site’s phased array radar bounces energy off the ionosphere to scan for objects beyond the line of sight, well over the horizon.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
  • To escape the ionosphere that blocks lower frequencies, radio astronomers will have to search from space or the far side of the moon.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
  • What inspired the idea that JJ was actually this spirit that was in the ionosphere?
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 May 2021
  • Moreover, the anomalies from the storm are constantly shifting through the ionosphere like ripples in a pool.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • The rocket launch also punched a temporary, 900-km-wide hole into the plasma of the ionosphere.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Two new cars seek to raise an already high bar somewhere into the upper ionosphere.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 27 June 2023
  • And the ionosphere's signal fluctuates both with the seasons and based on what's going on with space weather.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
  • These rings affect the way the ionosphere is charged, researchers report today in Science.
    — Andrew Wagner, Science | AAAS, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The data will inform how the ionosphere behaves when the sun is blocked, in comparison to before and after the eclipse.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • High-frequency waves can knock out of the magnetosphere to the ionosphere, which creates the green picket fences.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The burst even appears to have caused Earth’s ionosphere, the upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere, to swell in size for several hours.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many of those ions accumulate in (surprise!) the ionosphere.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2018
  • With the competing signal out of the way, WABC’s sound was able to travel far west—literally bouncing off the ionosphere.
    — Peter Funt, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The work tracks how energy spreads out from the site of a lightning bolt into the ionosphere via an electromagnetic pulse.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Earth’s upper atmosphere called the ionosphere is charged by the sunlight hitting it and this will change rapidly during an eclipse.
    — Guest, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • These rippled outward from the point in the ionosphere directly above the earthquake’s epicentre.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • Shortwave signals travel long distances by bouncing between the Earth and layers in the ionosphere high above.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2021
  • On Saturday, some researchers plan to use ham radios to study how solar eclipses affect the ionosphere, the part of Earth’s atmosphere that meets space.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023

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