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INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK
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UPPSALA
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics
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IRF Research Programme: Physics in Space
RESEARCH WITH SPACE RADIO AND RADARS
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Scientific Questions Addressed
Using modern plasma electrodynamics and
turbulent space plasma interaction methods, we currently focus our
attention on the effects of the interaction between radiation and
geospace. Questions addressed include:
- Using Earth's nearest space plasma
as a laboratory without walls to perform
model experiments that answer questions about turbulence, dynamic
self-structuring of matter, and radiation, for better understanding
and predictions of Earth's interaction
with its space environment.
- Utilising space as a huge outdoor laboratory for
testing fundamental laws of nature in ways not possible in
ground-based laboratories.
- Understanding the physical mechanisms behind the copious
amounts of electromagnetic radiation that is generated in the
Earth's magnetosphere, the Solar corona, and other space
plasma in our planetary system.
- Learning more about our own space habitat by studying
electromagnetic radiation received from remote sources.
Drawing on experience from systematic
ionospheric interaction experiments performed, we look for new radiation
signatures which can help us better understand the cosmic environment
of our own planet and other space objects.
- Ascertaining whether the electromagnetic radiation from
the tens of thousands of broadcast, TV, utility, radar and
research stations deployed on the ground by man over the past
century, or from the many satellites put into orbit over the
past half century, have any short-term or long-term effects
on space around Earth.
- Study the fundamental aspects of natural electromagnetic radiation
of any form generated by nature.
SEE-ing is believing!
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