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Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras

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Japanese scientists have created the first -ever long-term dataset about Earth 's entire atmosphere.

They hope the project will help shed light on some little-explored processes taking place inside our planet's gaseous shroud, including the magnificent northern lights.

The data will also help researchers better model how processes in the lower atmosphere affect the ionosphere, the part of the atmosphere above altitudes.

"If we want to understand the mechanisms behind this inter-hemispheric coupling, we need data," said Sato . "Our dataset can provide very valuable information to tackle this coupling." A paper describing the work done by the Japanese team was published in the journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science on Jan. 10 . Originally posted on Space.com ..

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