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SEVERAL workers have used the Faraday rotation of radio signals from artificial satellites as a means of investigating the upper ionosphere, and in most cases it has been assumed that the ionosphere is spherically stratified.
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WILSON, D. Electron Density Measurements in the Upper Ionosphere using the Faraday Rotation of Radio Signals from Artificial Satellites. Nature 186, 623–624 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186623a0
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