[Article originally published on August 12, 2025] The first "space hurricane" ever observed In 2014, a strange phenomenon was detected by the US Army's DMSP F17 satellite. It was only seven years later, in 2021, that the researchers officially described this event as the first "space hurricane" ever observed. The latter, which lasted almost eight hours, was more than 1,000 kilometres in diameter and rotated over the polar cap, an area in high la…
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[Article originally published on August 12, 2025] The first "space hurricane" ever observed In 2014, a strange phenomenon was detected by the US Army's DMSP F17 satellite. It was only seven years later, in 2021, that the researchers officially described this event as the first "space hurricane" ever observed. The latter, which lasted almost eight hours, was more than 1,000 kilometres in diameter and rotated over the polar cap, an area in high la…