Amateur Skywatchers Spot New Atmospheric Phenomenon

When they weren’t calling the purple, ribbon-like light Steve, the Facebook group referred to it as a “proton arc,” notes ABC News. But when a Canadian physicist and astronomer who studies aurorae looked at the photos, he suspected something more was afoot—especially since proton aurorae, which happen when protons from solar winds hit Earth's magnetic field, are usually too dark to be visible.

wait, if the temp. spikes 5400F at that location, wouldn’t that mean any spacecraft, satellite, etc. passing near that spot would melt/vaporize? Is this the Bermuda Triangle of satellites? Have we lost any of them mysteriously, or is it that the odds of hitting these phenomena at just the right time and place are so small? Sounds like Russian Roulette for spacecraft!

Not necessarily. That temperature can occur in widely separated highly energetic atoms with a lot of empty space between them. It can be almost indistinguishable from a vacuum otherwise.

Most aurorae phenomena occur in micro pressure atmospheres as do the glow of neon type lights which occur in glass tubes that have the air evacuated and then a low pressure pure ionizable gas introduced In which a plasma of a specific color or varying wavelengths of light can be formed.

A space vehicle or satellite moving through that where band of high temperature appears might not notice anything at all except some static in the electrical radiation bands and gain some charge due to the highly energetic plasma. A mass may have high temperature, but it takes a lot of that mass having direct contact to have a temperature raising affect on another mass in the neighborhood. It has to transfer its high energy to the other mass through a collision of some kind.

...Instead, it showed something that had never been observed before: a temperature spike of over 5400 degrees Fahrenheit in a spot about 186 miles above Earth’s surface combined with a gas ribbon over 15 miles wide...

And at that distance above the surface of Earth, at just STOPS?

And at that distance above the surface of Earth, at just STOPS?

At the limits of the electromagnetic field that is powering that particular glow discharge or where the conditions that are just right for the glow discharge to occur, yes, it will stop. You can see such filaments in the laboratory and they are self contained and limited by those conditions. While these are artificially generated, they are glow discharge arcs that are constrained by just such conditions. Plasma pressures, electromagnetic fields, etc. constrain where they go and where they stop.

It’s HAARP! Everyone knows the military has perfected Tesla’s theories. We’re doomed, I tell ya, DOOMED!!!

http://www.globalresearch.ca/haarp-secret-weapon-used-for-weather-modification-electromagnetic-warfare/20407

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