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Active experiments beyond the Earth: Plasma effects of sounding radar operations in the ionospheres of Venus, Mars, and the Jovian system

Barabash, Stas; Holmstrom, Mats; Frahm, Rudy A. +1 more

Operation of powerful satellite- and rocket-born sounding radars is often accompanied by a heating/acceleration of the local electrons and ions. Intense fluxes of sounder accelerated particles were detected in Earth's ionosphere when the frequency of the radar transmitter was close to one of the fundamental plasma resonances: harmonic of the elect…