Elusive matter found to be abundant far above Earth

[Benevolent]

Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our planet's interaction with the sun. Now, a new method developed by Swedish researchers makes cold plasma measurable and reveals significantly more cold, charged ions in Earth's upper altitudes than previously imagined.

"The more you look for low-energy ions, the more you find," said Mats André, a professor of space physics at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala, Sweden, and leader of the research team. “We didn’t know how much was out there. It’s more than even I thought."

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-elu ... earth.html

[Corona]

just stumbled over this as well:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... e-science/

Clouds of "cold plasma" reach from the top of Earth's atmosphere to at least a quarter the distance to the moon, according to new data from a cluster of European satellites.

Earth generates cold plasma—slow-moving charged particles—at the edge of space, where sunlight strips electrons from gas atoms, leaving only their positively charged cores, or nuclei.


what could the implications be?

[kell1990]

You just have to wonder when the "establishment" will get around to recognizing reality. Just think, this stuff has always been there, but it is only now being recognized. You have to wonder what else was missed.