NASA to launch ICON to study ionosphere

Brian G Turner

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Due to launch on December 7th, the mission will aim to cover the area where the Earth's atmosphere thins into space: NASA’s ICON Explores the Boundary Between Earth and Space

While possibly not a mission most people will get excited about, the NASA piece goes into some detail about the problem of defining where the atmosphere ends, and where space begins - and how little we actually know about the ionosphere.
 
I hope they will give us the results in a month.

Those images taken from the International Space Station are really cool.:)
 

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