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By Tereza Pultarova
Source: https://www.space.com/haarp-peers-inside-asteroid

Some people think HAARP was built to trigger natural disasters, but it may, in fact, help to save Earth one day.

cientists have used a former U.S. military research facility famous for weather control conspiracy theories to learn more about the interior of a passing asteroid. 

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a range of 180 antennas located in Gakona, Alaska, capable of sending powerful high-frequency radio pulses into the sky and beyond. Built by the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy in the 1990s, the facility became an object of conspiracy theories with some claiming it’s being used to control weather or induce natural disasters including earthquakes. 

In reality, scientists have been using HAARP to probe the ionosphere, the upper region of Earth’s atmosphere that interacts with plasma and electromagnetic radiation coming from the sun. In 2015, the facility was transferred from the ownership of the U.S. Air Force to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, which has recently announced a range of experiments looking beyond Earth’s gaseous blanket. 

One of these experiments, conducted in late December, involved shooting powerful pulses of long radio waves at an asteroid that was passing Earth at a distance double that of the moon at the time. The experiment aimed to learn about the interior of the asteroid, which could one day help design an effective Earth-saving mission in case this or another space rock were to intersect our planet’s path. 

“We will be analyzing the data over the next few weeks and hope to publish the results in the coming months,” Mark Haynes, lead investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement(opens in new tab). “This experiment was the first time an asteroid observation was attempted at such low frequencies.”

The asteroid, known as 2010 XC15, is about 500 feet wide (150 meters) and classified as potentially hazardous, which means it makes regular close approaches to Earth and could possibly one day hit the planet. 

Gathering data about the distribution of matter inside the asteroid could help engineers design a more effective deflection mission if it was ever needed. NASA tested such an approach in September last year when its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully changed the orbit of an asteroid moonlet Dimorphos around its parent space rock Didymos. DART, however, smashed into Dimorphos while its ground controllers knew barely anything about the rock. If our home planet were really at risk, its defenders would want to avoid going into the unknown by gaining an understanding of any asteroids prior to launching impactors at them. 

During the experiment, conducted on Dec. 27, HAARP kept firing radio waves at 2010 XC15 for 12 hours. Scientific radio antennas including those operated by amateurs all over the world listened for the returning signals to help understand the environment the signals traveled through as well as the properties of the asteroid. 

“So far we have received over 300 reception reports from the amateur radio and radio astronomy communities from six continents who confirmed the HAARP transmission,” Jessica Matthews, HAARP’s program manager, said in the statement. 

The most common methods of studying asteroids involve either optical telescopes or radio telescopes transmitting radiation with much shorter wavelengths. Neither of these techniques, however, can peer inside an asteroid, the researchers said in the statement. Optical telescopes only receive visual information from the light naturally reflected by the asteroids, while radio pulses with shorter wavelengths bounce off the space rocks’ surfaces, only revealing information about their outer shapes. 

The HAARP team has previously run experiments targeting the moon and the solar system’s largest planet Jupiter. 

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HAARP’s current research program has been called ‘unprecedented.’

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility, or HAARP, is in the midst of a wide-ranging science campaign that will see the facility bounce signals off the moon and Jupiter.

HAARP consists of 180 antennas designed to transmit signals into the ionosphere, which stretches from 30 miles (48 kilometers) to 600 miles (965 km) above sea level and is seen as the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space, according to NASA(opens in new tab). The ionosphere plays an important role in radio transmission, as it reflects radio waves. Many satellites occupy this region of the atmosphere, which is heavily influenced by solar weather.

HAARP is in the midst of a 10-day research campaign that is the facility’s “largest and most diverse to date,” HAARP program manager Jessica Matthews said in a statement(opens in new tab). Among the 13 experiments being conducted during the campaign are projects that will see signals bounced off the moon and Jupiter in order to test HAARP’s ability to study objects far from Earth.

One of the most ambitious experiments being carried out during HAARP’s current campaign is known as “Jupiter Bounce,” or “Interplanetary Ionosonde,” according to a statement from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)(opens in new tab). The experiment will test HAARP’s ability to bounce signals off  the ionosphere of Jupiter, while also determining how well receivers at the University of New Mexico’s Long Wavelength Array can receive the reflected signals. The experiment is “the largest active remote sensing operation in history,” according to the UAF statement.

“This is a first-of-its-kind experiment (which) at least to my knowledge has never been attempted before,” HAARP research support services lead Evans Callis told Alaska Public Media(opens in new tab). “We transmit several different frequencies from HAARP directed at Jupiter. We listen for the echo that returns, and that should be able to tell us something about electromagnetic conditions around Jupiter.”

Another experiment, known as “Moon Bounce,” will see signals bounced off  the moon back towards receivers in New Mexico and California. These signals will be evaluated for their use in determining the composition of near-Earth asteroids for future planetary defense purposes.

Meanwhile, HAARP’s “Making the Invisible Visible” experiment will “test if hot electrons are capable of producing the continuum (white) emissions present in STEVE airglow.” STEVE, short for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, is an aurora-like phenomenon that occurs when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s ionosphere. 

“If we see that air glow and it matches the wavelength of light that we see from naturally occurring STEVE, that would give us indication that the hot electrons are playing some role in the formation of STEVE,” Callis said.

One of the more unique experiments, “Ghosts in the Airglow,” will mix art and atmospheric research to “play with the liminal boundaries of Earth’s atmosphere and outer space,” according to the project’s website(opens in new tab). The experiment will use HAARP to bounce images, spoken word and sound art off  the ionosphere to learn more about radio propagation.

The HAARP facility was constructed in 1993 and originally operated by several United States military research agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory and Office of Naval Research. In 2015, ownership of the facility was transferred to the UAF(opens in new tab).

While primarily used for upper-atmospheric research, the facility has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories(opens in new tab) in the nearly three decades since it was constructed. Some have accused the U.S. government of using the facility to modify the weather, trigger earthquakes, create “chemtrails” or even to broadcast mind-control signals(opens in new tab). 

To date, there has been no evidence of the facility being used for mind control or anything other than atmospheric research. According to the “Frequently Asked Questions” page on HAARP’s website(opens in new tab), “Neuroscience is a complex field of study carried out by medical professionals, not scientists and researchers at HAARP.”

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