NASA Rocket, With Cool Name, Scheduled for Launch Wednesday Night
VIPER (
Experiment
Rocket) will be studying, radio waves that escape through the Earth’s ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous satellites, such as those for weather monitoring and communications, according to the space agency.
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They say,
VIPER is studying very low frequency radio, or VLF, waves that are produced by both natural (e.g. lightning) and artificial means. During the day these waves are trapped or absorbed by the Earth’s ionosphere. At night, however, some of the waves escape through the ionosphere and accelerate electrons in the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
NASA Rocket, With Cool Name, Scheduled for Launch Wednesday Night
VIPER (
Experiment
Rocket) will be studying, radio waves that escape through the Earth’s ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous satellites, such as those for weather monitoring and communications, according to the space agency.
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They say,
VIPER is studying very low frequency radio, or VLF, waves that are produced by both natural (e.g. lightning) and artificial means. During the day these waves are trapped or absorbed by the Earth’s ionosphere. At night, however, some of the waves escape through the ionosphere and accelerate electrons in the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
Top 10 Sounds Made By Astronomical Objects (with Audio)
There is a common saying that goes, “In space, no one can hear you scream”. That is true. It has nothing to do with the screamer but the nonexistence of a medium through which sound can travel. This means something could explode right beside you in space and you would not even notice, unless you saw the flash of the explosion or some debris flying towards you.
Aside from explosions, the absence of that medium also means we cannot hear the sound of any astronomical object traveling through space. However, luckily for us, sound is a mechanical wave and we can record the frequency of those waves and convert them into sound, just as we have done with the planets, moons, comets and stars on this list. Please grab your headphones because you are in for a surprise.