Using ground-based complexes for the study of near-earth and outer space, scientists are able to create plasma disturbances in the ionosphere with specified properties and intensity in order to study their characteristics later, said Vladimir Frolov, an employee of the Near Space Research Laboratory of Kazan Federal University. This was reported by the press service of the university.
Currently, there are only three heating stands in the world, which, when exposed to the upper atmosphere, can generate artificial plasma disturbances, or inhomogeneities, in them. The first complex is located in Russia, it is called SURA, the second is located near the Norwegian city of Tromsø and is called EISCAT-heater, and the third, HAARP, is installed in the USA, in Alaska.
According to the scientist, today the Earth's ionosphere is nothing more than a natural plasma laboratory in which many experiments can be carried out in various directions: the physics of the plasma, the Sun, the planets of the solar system, the physics of the ionosphere and the magnetosphere.
At the same time, the scientist assures that the modification of the ionosphere does not lead to irreversible consequences in it, and the perturbations themselves quickly disappear after the end of the experiments and do not affect the inhabitants of the Earth in any way.
