'Space hurricane' that rained electrons observed for the first time. The spiral-armed storm swirled roughly 125 miles over the North Pole, churning in place for almost 8 hours.
Scientists from China, the United States, Norway and the United Kingdom found the space hurricane while combing through satellite observations from August 2014. As satellites
The spiral-armed space hurricane swirled roughly 125 miles over the North Pole, churning in place for almost eight hours, Lyons said. But that's perhaps where the similarities end. Unlike with regular hurricanes that can dump huge amounts of precipitation over Earth's surface, the scientists instead observed electrons raining into the upper atmosphere.
"People who are interested in satellite communications and GPS signals are going to care a lot," Lyons said.