Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 05:43
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Space Weather Monitoring on the Antarctic Plateau 2013

Since the atmosphere is thinner and better for telescope research, have you and your team discovered any new information about space weather can't be done in a thicker atmosphere?

Nicole Disharoon

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 12:39

Tim Spuck

One of the reasons Space Weather is studied from Antarctica is that there are no people who live there so you don't get a lot of interference from cell phones, radios, etc. and this is the location where the magnetic field lines dip into the Earth. So space weather observations don't have a lot to do with the thickness of the atmosphere. However at South Pole they do have a radio telescope that does take advantage of the thin dry atmosphere. Check it out at http://pole.uchicago.edu/spt/