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The Artificial Ionosphere

In 1963, US scientists created a temporary artificial ring around the earth, made up of tiny copper needles, to serve as an artivicial ionosphere off which to bounce Cold War communications signals.

This was written by Jason. Posted on Tuesday, May 9, 2006, at 3:13 pm. Filed under Aside Links, Science, Space. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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