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AURORA :: Propagation Resource Center :: HFRadio.org
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IN THE NEWS: Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR)
Researchers have known for three decades that the Earth is a potent radio transmitter, but they were never able to pinpoint where the noise was coming from. By using data from the four spacecraft of the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, NASA-funded scientists have now precisely located the source of that radio noise along magnetic field lines several thousand miles above bright regions in Earth's northern lights.
Though AKR is not detectable from the Earth's surface - the ionosphere blocks most radio waves from space at those frequencies - it is the most important and intense naturally occurring radio emission from Earth. Sounding like sporadic bursts of high-pitched whistles and squawks, AKR is emitted by Earth about one-third to one-half of every day at a signal strength as high as one billion Watts.
The most potent commercial radio signals on Earth are only 100,000 Watts, meaning that AKR would drown out much of our AM radio signals were it not for the ionosphere (a tenuous layer of electrified gas at the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space).
To read more about this, check out the news article at http://spacedaily.com - and, visit the headquarters for the CLUSTER mission.
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