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  • What Is a TID? It’s a TAD More Complicated Than We Thought

    The ionosphere is a region of charged particles in near-Earth space that coexists with the neutral atmosphere, called the thermosphere.

    By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center About 50 miles up, Earth's atmosphere undergoes a fundamental change. It starts at the atomic level, affecting only one out of every million atoms (but with about 91 billion crammed in a pinhead-sized pocket of air, that's plenty). At that height, unfiltered sunlight begins cleaving atoms into …