This structure is pretty close to the Earth, which is important because people want to understand the environment where satellites operate. Usually plasma undergoes a number of different instabilities, and waves tend to move from one region in space to another, so everything you see is noisy, very short-lived, and on smaller scales. But this structure seems to be very persistent, highly coherent in space, and was remarkably organized and structured, which we didn’t know could exist to such high degree.
Read more:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/scientists-discovery-of-zebra-stripes-in-space-resolves-a-half-century-mystery
http://planets.ucla.edu/news/discovery-of-zebra-stripes-in-space-by-yuri-shprits-and-chris-russell
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoc–sdo071415.php>
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-zebra-like-stripes-plasma-patch-space.html
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2015/07/zebra-plasma-stripes-observed-patch-space
https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/zebra-stripes-plasma-patch-space-0714
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Scientists_discovery_of_zebra_stripes_in_space_resolves_a_half_century_mystery_999.html
http://helpinus.net/scientists-discovery-of-zebra-stripes-in-space-resolves-a-half-century-mystery/
http://sci.esa.int/cluster/56143-cluster-solves-the-mystery-of-equatorial-noise/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150714131558.htm
http://www.iflscience.com/space/zebra-stripes-spotted-space-around-earth
http://visiblefoot.blogspot.com/2015/07/mystery-of-13-zebra-stripes-of-earth.html
http://reader.centrodouniverso.com.br/?p=124331
http://article.wn.com/view-travelagents/2015/07/16/Zebra_Stripes_Spotted_In_Space_Around_Earth
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-422349760.html
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/07/16/mystery-of-equatorial-noise-solved
http://scitechdaily.com/researchers-observed-13-equally-spaced-zebra-like-stripes-of-plasma-in-space