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215. Space wind! 'This cool space breeze is made up of material from the plasmasphere— basically a giant space donut of dense, cold plasma that wraps around the Earth, with us as its donut hole.'

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Space Wind Really Does Exist
We detect a plasmaspheric breeze.
www.popsci.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:31 AM
stev.bsky.social
Hey gang thanks for tuning in it’s Asep 342.776 from the Plasmasphere Triangulate
April 10, 2024 at 2:06 PM
esaspaceweather.esa.int
🚀Demonstrating new capabilities from Eötvös University (ELTE): Near real-time specification for the current state of the plasmasphere, its outer boundary & related forecasts are now available on the ESA #SpaceWeather Portal!

Access here👇
🌐https://swe.ssa.esa.int/elte-plasma-federated
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May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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How Superstorm Gannon Squeezed Earth’s Plasmasphere To One-fifth Its Size
astrobiology.com/2025/11/how-... #astrobiology #spaceweather #solarflare
How Superstorm Gannon Squeezed Earth’s Plasmasphere To One-fifth Its Size - Astrobiology
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs
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November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Look me in the eyes...

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January 23, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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My latest robot design, Redbot (2024), is 36" tall. It's seen here posed with a 16" plasma sphere. I'm currently developing my next robot design.

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January 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
iflscience.com
Last Year's Global Aurora-Sparking "Superstorm" Squashed Earth's Plasmasphere To A Fifth Its Usual Size

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Last Year's Global Aurora-Sparking "Superstorm" Squashed Earth's Plasmasphere To A Fifth Its Usual Size
The compression of the plasmasphere was extreme, but the slow recovery time was an even bigger shock.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The impact of the Gannon superstorm on Earth's plasmasphere
YouTube video by Black Hole
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November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Superstorm Gannon, the strongest in over 20 years, dramatically compressed Earth's plasmasphere to one-fifth its size, highlighting the potential impacts of extreme space weather 🌍⚡ Link: https://tinyurl.com/25so2qb3 #SpaceWeather #EnvironmentalImpact #GeomagneticStorms
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
issibern.ch
Cold plasma in the Earth’s ionosphere and plasmasphere plays a critical role in near-Earth space, driving wave-particle interactions, coupling processes, and radio wave propagation.
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See what ISSI Working Group ‘ATIP’, led by Artem Smirnov and Fabricio Prol, is up to: collab.issibern.ch/atip/ 🔭
Team picture of the ISSI Working Group ATIP led by Artem Smirnov and Fabricio Prol.
July 23, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere #Science #Space #SpaceWeather #SolarStorm #Plasmasphere #EarthScience
Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere
A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of May 10/11, 2024, when an intense solar storm slammed into the...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2001-01-31: Earth's Plasmasphere
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Our Earth is surrounded by plasma. The overall shape that this ionized gas plasmasphere takes was discovered last year by NASA's robot IMAGE spacecraft, and shown in the recently released above image in ultraviolet light. The arm of the plasmasphere pointing toward the Sun, on the lower right, was hypothesized but never before seen directly. The Earth's shadow can be seen pointing away from the Sun. The bright regions in the center are full auroral rings over northern Earth, visible as northern lights from the ground. The plasmasphere is thought created by sunlight energizing molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere and is contained by Earth's magnetic field. IMAGE continues to study how solar magnetic storms affect Earth and its magnetic field.
June 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Satellite reveals why we could see auroras so far north in Australia last year: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-11-22/gannon-solar-storm-may-2024-squeezed-earths-plasmasphere/104262132
Satellite reveals why we could see auroras so far north in Australia last year
While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new satellite data.
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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'Mother's Day' solar storm squeezed Earth's plasmasphere to one-fifth its size www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Satellite reveals why we could see auroras so far north in Australia last year
While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new satellit...
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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During the May 2024 superstorm, Earth's plasmasphere was compressed to one-fifth its usual size, with recovery taking over four days—impacting satellites, GPS, and communications systems. doi.org/hbbzgq
How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth's plasmasphere to one-fifth its size
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs when the sun releases massive amounts of energy and charged particles toward Earth.
phys.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
inthefieldstories.bsky.social
🧲🌏 Revealing the effect of a super geomagnetic storm

With the help of #NREN of #Japan 🇯🇵 #NICT, #Researchers found a 2024 geomagnetic storm suppressed the plasmasphere for over 4 days, with electron density dropping up to 90%.

🔗 https://ow.ly/B8uj50YNeJw

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April 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM
esaspaceweather.esa.int
🌍The Earth's plasmasphere is a region of cold, dense plasma found in the inner magnetosphere. It's important to monitor for #SpaceWeather as its dynamics relate to e.g. the outer radiation belt inner boundary♾️& spacecraft charging risks🛰️

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May 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
astrodave.bsky.social
On May 10 2024, the Gannon Solar Storm slammed into the Earth’s protective magnetic sheath. Now, a study shows how intrusive that storm was, and how long it took for the Earth’s plasma layer to recover.

Here’s our post on the study for @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/his...
Historic May 2024 Gannon Solar Storm Compressed Earth’s Plasmasphere
A powerful geomagnetic superstorm is a once a generation event, happening once every 20-25 years. Such an event transpired on the night of May 10/11, 2024, when an intense solar storm slammed into the...
www.universetoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth’s plasmasphere to one-fifth its size
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs when the Sun releases massive amounts of energy and charged particles toward Earth. These storms are rare, occurri...
www.eurekalert.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Solar Superstorm Gannon crushed Earth’s plasmasphere to a record low
A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses under intense space weather. With the Arase satellite in a perfect observing po...
www.sciencedaily.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
novaserve.bsky.social
Remember the scene in Independence Day on top of the skyscraper and all the folks in awe of the pretty lights "it's so beautiful"? The mother's day aurora was that, minus the aliens. How bad was the effects on earth? The plasmasphere was almost wrecked in under twelve hours. phys.org/news/2025-11...
Scientists track recent solar flare disruptions in Earth's ionosphere
As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide swath of the globe—from northern Europe to Florida—researchers at NJIT's Ce...
phys.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
exocourier.bsky.social
[2607.18318] Jaden Fitzpatrick et al.: Electron Temperature Gradients Regulate the Duration of Two-Stage Plasmasphere Refilling. link
July 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
physicsspaceph-bot.bsky.social
Fitzpatrick, Chatterjee, Maruyama, Chu, Bortnik, Goldstein, Blum, Bishop: Electron Temperature Gradients Regulate the Duration of Two-Stage Plasmasphere Refilling https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18318 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18318
July 22, 2026 at 6:59 AM
astroarxiv.bsky.social
Electron Temperature Gradients Regulate the Duration of Two-Stage Plasmasphere Refilling. Jaden Fitzpatrick et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18318
(Top, Left) Equatorial concentration of H$^+$, He$^+$, and O$^+$ over time. (Bottom, Left) The fraction of equatorial concentration composed of He$^+$ and O$^+$. (Right) Evolution of the electron temperature profile across latitude and time, with each colored line corresponding to a time designat... (Left) Early-time and (right) late-time refilling length as functions of $ $ and color designating $T_0$. The circles correspond to results of particular refilling simulations, and the dashed lines are solutions at a given temperature to the multivariate second-degree polynomial regression fit (w...
July 22, 2026 at 5:40 AM