@yahoonews: If your GPS seemed off shortly after the Artemis II launch, you might’ve been right. 😅🚀 ⠀ NASA’s April 1 launch punched holes in the ionosphere, an electrically charged layer of Earth’s upper atmosphere, that could have temporarily caused localized GPS errors, a new study found. Researchers called the disturbances the most significant observed from a rocket launch to date. ⠀ GPS signals pass through the ionosphere to reach receivers on Earth. Changes in that layer can alter the signals’ travel time, throwing off location readings. The disturbances measured after Artemis II were equivalent to positioning errors of several meters. ⠀ “A positioning error of a couple of meters is enough to cause an autonomous car to change lanes,” study co-author Charles Lin told Space.com, warning of potential effects on self-driving cars and drones.

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