Who is behind haarp

Along with the neutral upper atmosphere, the ionosphere forms the boundary between Earth's lower atmosphere — where we live and breathe — and the vacuum of space. HAARP is the world's most capable high-power, high-frequency transmitter for study of the ionosphere. The HAARP program is committed to developing a world-class ionospheric research facility consisting of:.

The Ionospheric Research Instrument, a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency range. Conspiracy theorists are abuzz about the news, given that HAARP short for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program has long been the center of wild speculation that the program is designed to control the weather — or worse.

For the record, the Haitian quake of was caused by the slippage of a previously unmapped fault along the border of the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates. HAARP is a research program designed to analyze the ionosphere, a portion of the upper atmosphere that stretches from about 53 miles 85 kilometers above the surface of the Earth to miles kilometers up.

HAARP sends radio beams into the ionosphere to study the responses from it — one of the few ways to accurately measure this inaccessible part of the atmosphere. Other instruments are then used to measure the perturbations.

The goal of the program is to understand the physics of the ionosphere, which is constantly responding to influences from the sun. Solar flares can send solar particles racing toward Earth, occasionally disrupting communications and the electrical grid.

If scientists could better understand what happens in the ionosphere, they might be able to mitigate some of these problems. These theories have yet to subside, even though very little has been going on at HAARP over the past year. In May , the site shut down during a change in operations contractors. Original article on Live Science. Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science covering topics from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior.

A freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, she also regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor, the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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