New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere

MacDonald E.A.^{1, 2} , Kosar B.^{1, 2} , Heavner M.^{2, 10} , Donovan E.³ , Megan Gillies D.³ , Gallardo-Lacourt B.^{3, 5} , Archer W.E.^{3, 11} , Spanswick E.L.³ , Connors M.^{3, 8, 9} , Jackel B.³ , Knudsen D.J.³ , Nishimura Y.^{5, 4} , Case N.A. ⁶ , Bourassa N.⁷ , Ratzlaff C.⁷ , Schofield I.⁸

Science Advances

American Association for the Advancement of Science

3

English

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Published

4

2018

• ¹ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• ² New Mexico Consortium
• ³ Los Alamos National Laboratory
• ⁴ University of Calgary
• ⁵ University of California|Los Angeles
• ⁶ Department of Physics and Engineering Physics|University of Saskatchewan
• ⁷ Athabasca University
• ⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration|Western University
• ⁹ Boston University
• ¹⁰ Lancaster University
• ¹¹ Alberta Aurora Chasers