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The higher atmosphere is full of peculiar phenomena and an important one for communication and navigation is equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). These are hot pockets of superheated gas that form at low latitudes, usually after sunset. They remain poorly understood, and given that they impact Earth’s connection to space, it is important to know what is going on. The finding of a massive bubble of plasma over Egypt is not itself major news. Tens of these EPBs form every year over that specific region. What’s interesting is from where the bubble was observed. Observations are usually from space to…