NRL rocket experiment tests effects of dusty plasma on the ionosphere
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 14:10
in Astronomy & Space
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with numerous universities and government laboratories studying the effects of dusty plasmas—charged dust particles that can occur naturally in the mesosphere—generated an artificial plasma cloud in the upper-atmosphere to validate the theory of 'dressed particle scattering' caused by this phenomenon.