After 60 Years Of Searching, NASA Finds The “Polar Wind,” Earth’s Third Energy Field

After six decades of searching, NASA has finally confirmed the existence of Earth’s third energy field, the elusive ‘Polar Wind’, previously known only through theoretical studies. 

This groundbreaking discovery sheds new light on our understanding of the planet’s intricate atmospheric dynamics and highlights the continuous advancements in scientific exploration.

The field has been there since the beginning

Glyn Collinson, principle investigator of Endurance at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, emphasized the relevance of a weak energy field in understanding how our planet works. 

The field, like gravity and magnetic, counteracts gravity and lifts the heavens, making it essential to Earth’s operation. The field has existed since its establishment.

The scientists believe that polar winds hold key secrets regarding the rapid evaporation of Earth’s atmosphere above its north and south poles. They believe that the evolution of the uppermost layer of our atmosphere may have been significantly influenced by this field of energy.

In the 1960s, spacecraft flying over Earth’s poles spotted supersonic particles from the atmosphere escaping into space. Although scientists knew that sunlight causes particles to leak into space, the observed particles showed no signs of heating. 

Collinson proposed that an energy field was sucking these particles out of the atmosphere, but the equipment required to detect such a field was not available at the time.

The field acts like a conveyor belt

Scientists have discovered an ambipolar electric field on Earth, which has been driving atmospheric escape and shaping the ionosphere. The discovery was made using measurements from a Nasa suborbital rocket, which was used by Nasa’s Endurance Mission. 

The team, led by Collinson and his collaborators, launched the suborbital rocket flight on May 11, 2022, from Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago. Suzie Imber, a space physicist at the University of Leicester, UK, co-authored the paper, stating that Svalbard is the only rocket range in the world where one can fly through the polar wind.

The Endurance mission discovered that hydrogen ions in the polar wind are pushed into space by a 10.06 times stronger electric field than gravity. The ambipolar field increases the ionosphere’s density by 271%, keeping it denser at higher heights. 

This discovery opens new avenues for exploration, particularly how energy fields on planets with atmospheres like Venus and Mars have influenced Earth’s atmosphere evolution.

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