"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek ...

Now, more than half a century later, NASA has finally recorded this theoretical field and measured a change in electric potential of only 0.55 volts, the correct amount needed to send ions at ...

How Earth’s Global Electric Field Works. Just as water in a pipe tends to flow from areas with high pressure to areas of low pressure, differences in electrical potential can push and pull ...

That’s how the team measured a total electric potential drop of just 0.55 volts across the entire region. “A half a volt is almost nothing—it’s only about as strong as a watch battery ...

The rocket measured an electric potential change of merely 0.55 volts across a 322-mile altitude range. "A half a volt is almost nothing – it's only about as strong as a watch battery ...

The Endurance measured an electric potential of 0.55 volts – less than most pocket batteries – over a range of 518 kilometers (322 miles) in altitude. Yet that might be enough to have had a ...

NASA’s Endurance rocket has measured Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time, revealing how it lifts particles into space. (CREDIT: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Lacey Young) ...