SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket punctured the Earth's ionosphere

Recently, scientists have discovered the Earth's ionosphere appears a giant hole with a diameter of up to 900km, an area of ​​1.77 million km2.

The cause of the hole in the Earth's ionosphere affects the GPS navigation system believed to be due to Falcon 9's missiles. The missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on August 24 last year. It carries Formosat-5, an earth observation satellite built by the Taiwan National Space Organization.

When the rocket reached supersonic speed a few minutes after the launch, it created giant SAW sound waves that flew through the atmosphere. These sound waves then continue to expand outward for about 20 minutes at a rate of about 629 to 726 meters per second.

According to the Advancing Earth magazine, this is the biggest SAW missile missile ever. It created a giant hole, about 900km in diameter and 1,770,000km2 in area, four times the total state of California.

The ionosphere is an upper atmosphere of the Earth's atmosphere containing many particles ionized from the sun's rays. The researchers estimated that the SAW electrons were destroyed, making the total amount of electrons reduced by 70%. Researchers believe that these fluctuations are quite small and can only lead to radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to Earth that are skewed within a meter - not large enough to cause problems. great deals until SAW disbanded.