Other Words from ionosphere

ionospheric \ ˌī-ˌä-nə-ˈsfir-ik

, -ˈsfer- \ adjective

ionospherically \ ˌī-ˌä-nə-ˈsfir-i-k(ə-)lē

, -ˈsfer- \ adverb

Examples of ionosphere in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In general, such disturbances in the ionosphere do not harm humans but can affect GPS signals and disrupt aircraft navigation. — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 21 June 2022 These storms can heat the ionosphere – where Earth's atmosphere meets space – causing the beautiful auroras here on Earth. — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021 The drag comes partly from the way the conductive film interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and with plasma in the ionosphere, creating an electrodynamic force, said Rob Hoyt, founder and president of Tethers Unlimited, which makes the device. — Author: Samantha Masunaga, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021 The drag comes partly from the way the conductive film interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and with plasma in the ionosphere, creating an electrodynamic force, said Rob Hoyt, founder and president of Tethers Unlimited, which makes the device. — Author: Samantha Masunaga, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021 The drag comes partly from the way the conductive film interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and with plasma in the ionosphere, creating an electrodynamic force, said Rob Hoyt, founder and president of Tethers Unlimited, which makes the device. — Author: Samantha Masunaga, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021 During the July flyby nearly 30 years later, data on the ionosphere was gathered six months after the sun's solar minimum. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 May 2021 The drag comes partly from the way the conductive film interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and with plasma in the ionosphere, creating an electrodynamic force, said Rob Hoyt, founder and president of Tethers Unlimited, which makes the device. — Author: Samantha Masunaga, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021 The radio signal picked up by FIELDS helped the researchers calculate the density of the Venusian ionosphere. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 May 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for ionosphere

Note: The term was introduced by the British engineer and physicist Robert A. Watson-Watt (1892-1973), apparently first in an unpublished letter (November 8, 1926) to the secretary of the Radio Research Board, a government agency (see Nature, vol. 224, December 13, 1969, p. 1096). Watson-Watt used it in print in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 55 (1929), p. 278.

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